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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H60

אֵבֶל

ebelay'-bel

mourning

24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼêbel

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H60is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H60

lamentation

The King James renders it: mourning.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

ebel is rendered "mourning". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
  • The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.

The first use

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 27:41אֵ֣בֶל

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • mourning10
  • into mourning4
  • mourning of3
  • the mourning2
  • and a mourning1
  • and from mourning1
  • like mourning of1
  • mourning their1
  • mourning your1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

אֵבֶרeberwingUses3
אֵבֶהebehpapyrusUses1

The words it stands beside

All 24, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

16 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • אֵ֔בֶל3
  • אֵ֣בֶל2
  • אֵ֖בֶל2
  • אֵ֗בֶל2
  • אֵ֤בֶל2
  • הָאֵ֗בֶל2
  • לְאֵ֖בֶל2
  • אֵ֥בֶל1
  • אֵֽבֶל־1
  • אֶבְלֵֽךְ׃1
  • אֶבְלָ֤ם1
  • וְאֵ֖בֶל1

and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular10HNcmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular4HR/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2fs
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc

Genesis

four uses
  • Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

    Genesis 27:41

    • אֵ֣בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mourning of
  • When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.

    Genesis 50:10

    • אֵ֖בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singulartagged: mourning
  • When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.

    Genesis 50:11

    • הָאֵ֗בֶלhaevelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the mourning
    • אֵֽבֶל־ʾevel-noun · masculine singulartagged: mourning

Deuteronomy

one use
  • The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

    Deuteronomy 34:8

    • אֵ֥בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mourning of

2 Samuel

three uses
  • And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

    2 Samuel 11:27

    • הָאֵ֗בֶלhaevelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the mourning
  • 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

    • אֵ֗בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singulartagged: mourning
  • And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.”

    2 Samuel 19:2

    • לְאֵ֖בֶלleevelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into mourning

Esther

two uses
  • In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

    Esther 4:3

    • אֵ֤בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singulartagged: mourning
  • as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

    Esther 9:22

    • וּמֵאֵ֖בֶלumeevelconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from mourning

Job

one use
  • My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

    Job 30:31

    • לְ֭אֵבֶלleevelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into mourning

Ecclesiastes

two uses
  • It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

    Ecclesiastes 7:2

    • אֵ֗בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singulartagged: mourning
  • The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

    Ecclesiastes 7:4

    • אֵ֔בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singulartagged: mourning

Isaiah

two uses
  • Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.

    Isaiah 60:20

    • אֶבְלֵֽךְ׃ʾevlekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: mourning your
  • to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

    Isaiah 61:3

    • אֵ֔בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singulartagged: mourning

Jeremiah

three uses
  • O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

    Jeremiah 6:26

    • אֵ֤בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mourning of
  • No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

    Jeremiah 16:7

    • אֵ֖בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singulartagged: mourning
  • Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

    Jeremiah 31:13

    • אֶבְלָ֤םʾevlamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: mourning their

Lamentations

one use
  • Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

    Lamentations 5:15

    • לְאֵ֖בֶלleevelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into mourning

Ezekiel

one use
  • Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”

    Ezekiel 24:17

    • אֵ֣בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singulartagged: mourning

Amos

three uses
  • Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

    Amos 5:16

    • אֵ֔בֶלʾevelnoun · masculine singulartagged: mourning
  • I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

    Amos 8:10

    • לְאֵ֗בֶלleevelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into mourning
    • כְּאֵ֣בֶלkeevelpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like mourning of

Micah

one use
  • Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

    Micah 1:8

    • וְאֵ֖בֶלveevelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a mourning

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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