Strong's #56: 'abal (pronounced aw-bal')
a primitive root; to bewail:--lament, mourn.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âbal
1) to mourn, lament
1a) (Qal) to mourn, lament
1a1) of humans
1a2) of inanimate objects (figuratively)
1a2a) of gates
1a2b) of land
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to mourn, cause to mourn (figuratively)
1c) (Hithpael)
1c1) to mourn
1c2) play the mourner
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 39 times:
Genesis 37:34: "and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days."
Exodus 33:4: "these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on"
Numbers 14:39: "the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly."
1 Samuel 6:19: "and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people"
1 Samuel 15:35: "of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented"
1 Samuel 16:1: "Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I"
2 Samuel 13:37: "king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day."
2 Samuel 14:2: "and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning"
2 Samuel 14:2: "as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:"
2 Samuel 19:1: "Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth Absalom."
1 Chronicles 7:22: "And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren to comfort"
2 Chronicles 35:24: "And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah."
Ezra 10:6: "nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away."
Nehemiah 1:4: "words, that I sat down and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed"
Nehemiah 8:9: "is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For"
Job 14:22: "him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn."
Isaiah 3:26: "And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground."
Isaiah 19:8: "they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon"
Isaiah 24:4: "The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, people"
Isaiah 24:7: "The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted"
Isaiah 33:9: "The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: is"
Isaiah 66:10: "for joy with her, all ye that mourn for"
Jeremiah 4:28: "For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above"
Jeremiah 12:4: "How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field"
Jeremiah 12:11: "They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole is made"
Jeremiah 14:2: "Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; of Jerusalem"
Jeremiah 23:10: "because the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up,"
Lamentations 2:8: "from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together."
Ezekiel 7:12: "nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all"
Ezekiel 7:27: "The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the land"
Ezekiel 31:15: "In the day when he went down I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for"
Daniel 10:2: "I Daniel was mourning full weeks."
Hosea 4:3: "Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish,"
Hosea 10:5: "of Beth-aven: for thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on"
Joel 1:9: "of the LORD; the priests, ministers, mourn."
Joel 1:10: "The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn the new wine"
Amos 1:2: "his voice and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel"
Amos 8:8: "for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood;"
Amos 9:5: "and it shall melt, that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned,"
