אָבַל

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 37:34

• וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֥לvaiyitabelHc/Vtw3mstagged: and he mourned

When the people heard these bad tidings, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry.

Exodus 33:4

• וַיִּתְאַבָּ֑לוּvaiyitabaluHc/Vtw3mptagged: and they mourned

And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.

Numbers 14:39

• וַיִּֽתְאַבְּל֥וּvaiyitabeluHc/Vtw3mptagged: and they mourned

But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.

1 Samuel 6:19

• וַיִּֽתְאַבְּל֣וּvaiyitabeluHc/Vtw3mptagged: and they mourned

And to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 15:35

• הִתְאַבֵּ֥לhitabelverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he mourned

Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”

1 Samuel 16:1

• מִתְאַבֵּ֣לmitabelverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: mourning

Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

2 Samuel 13:37

• וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֥לvaiyitabelHc/Vtw3mstagged: and he mourned

So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.

2 Samuel 14:2

• הִֽתְאַבְּלִי־hitabeli-verb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: play mourner
• מִתְאַבֶּ֖לֶתmitabeletverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · feminine singulartagged: mourning

Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”

2 Samuel 19:1

• וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֖לvaiyitabelHc/Vtw3mstagged: and he mourned

Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 7:22

• וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֛לvaiyitabelHc/Vtw3mstagged: and he mourned

So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.

2 Chronicles 35:24

• מִֽתְאַבְּלִ֖יםmitabelimverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine pluraltagged: mourning

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

Ezra 10:6

• מִתְאַבֵּ֖לmitabelverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: mourning

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 1:4

• וָאֶתְאַבְּלָ֖הvaetabelahHc/Vtw1cs/Shtagged: and I mourned

Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.

Nehemiah 8:9

• תִּֽתְאַבְּל֖וּtitabeluverb · reflexive (hithpael), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you mourn

He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”

Job 14:22

• תֶּאֱבָֽל׃ פteevalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it mourns

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Isaiah 3:26

• וְאָבְל֖וּveaveluHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will mourn

Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

Isaiah 19:8

• וְאָ֣בְל֔וּveaveluHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will mourn

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

Isaiah 24:4

• אָבְלָ֤הʾavelahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has dried up

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Isaiah 24:7

• אָבַ֥לʾavalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has dried up

The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Isaiah 33:9

• אָבַ֤לʾavalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has dried up

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

Isaiah 66:10

• הַמִּֽתְאַבְּלִ֖יםhamitabelimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those mourn

Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

Jeremiah 4:28

• תֶּאֱבַ֣לteevalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will mourn

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

Jeremiah 12:4

• תֶּאֱבַ֣לteevalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: will it dry up

They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

Jeremiah 12:11

• אָבְלָ֥הʾavelahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is in mourning

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:2

• אָבְלָ֣הʾavelahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is in mourning

For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.

Jeremiah 23:10

• אָבְלָ֣הʾavelahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has dried up

The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.

Lamentations 2:8

• וַיַּֽאֲבֶל־vaiyaavel-Hc/Vhw3mstagged: and he has caused to mourn

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

Ezekiel 7:12

• יִתְאַבָּ֑לyitabalverb · reflexive (hithpael), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he mourn

The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

Ezekiel 7:27

• יִתְאַבָּ֗לyitabalverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will mourn

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

Ezekiel 31:15

• הֶאֱבַ֜לְתִּיheevaltiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I caused mourning

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.

Daniel 10:2

• מִתְאַבֵּ֔לmitabelverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: mourning

Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.

Hosea 4:3

• תֶּאֱבַ֣לteevalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will dry up

The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.

Hosea 10:5

• אָבַ֨לʾavalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will mourn

Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

Joel 1:9

• אָֽבְלוּ֙ʾaveluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are in mourning

The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

Joel 1:10

• אָבְלָ֖הʾavelahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is dried up

He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”

Amos 1:2

• וְאָֽבְלוּ֙veaveluHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will dry up

Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

Amos 8:8

• וְאָבַ֖לveavalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will mourn

The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—

Amos 9:5

• וְאָבְל֖וּveaveluHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they mourn