aval · mourn

What it means

aval (אָבַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mourn”.

Grieve for the dead.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To grieve for the dead; or the land that dries up.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• mourn ×17
• mourned ×9
• mourns ×8
• mourning ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Job×1
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×5
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×2
• Joel×2
• Amos×3

• Genesis 37:34

  Jacob tore his garments, put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

• Exodus 33:4

  When the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.

• Numbers 14:39

  And Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

• 1 Samuel 6:19

  And he struck among the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked into the ark of YHWH; he struck among the people seventy men, fifty thousand men. And the people mourned, because YHWH had struck the people with a great blow.

• 1 Samuel 15:35

  Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, for Samuel mourned for Saul; and YHWH was sorry that he had made Saul king over Israel.

• 1 Samuel 16:1

  YHWH said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, when I have despised him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have seen among his sons a king for myself.”

• 2 Samuel 13:37

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

• 2 Samuel 14:2

  Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and he said to her, “Please mourn; put on, please, mourning clothes and do not anoint yourself with oil, and be like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for these many days.

• 2 Samuel 19:1

  It was told to Joab, “Look, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”

• 1 Chronicles 7:22

  And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

• 2 Chronicles 35:24

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

• Ezra 10:6

  And Ezra rose from before the house of Elohim and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib; and he went there; bread he did not eat, and water he did not drink, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

• Nehemiah 1:4

  And when I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the Elohim of the heavens.

• Nehemiah 8:9

  And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who made the people understand, said to all the people, “This day is holy to YHWH your Elohim; do not mourn nor weep.” For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the law.

• Job 14:22

  Only his flesh on him feels pain, and his soul for him mourns.”

• Isaiah 3:26

  And her gates will lament and mourn, and stripped bare, she will sit on the ground.

• Isaiah 19:8

  And the fishermen will moan, and all who cast a hook in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread a net on the surface of the waters will languish.

• Isaiah 24:4

  The earth mourns, withers; the world languishes, withers; the exalted of the people of the earth languish.

• Isaiah 24:7

  The new wine mourns, the vine languishes; all the glad of heart sigh.

• Isaiah 33:9

  The land mourns, languishes; Lebanon is abashed, it withers; Sharon has become like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

• Isaiah 66:10

  Be glad with Jerusalem and exult in her, all who love her; rejoice with her with rejoicing, all who mourn over her;

• Jeremiah 4:28

  For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will grow dark, because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it.”

• Jeremiah 12:4

  How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of those who dwell in it the animals and the birds are swept away, for they say: “He will not see our end.”

• Jeremiah 12:11

  They have made it a desolation; it mourns before me, desolate; desolate is all the land, for there is no man who takes it to heart.

• Jeremiah 14:2

  Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they mourn darkly to the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

• Jeremiah 23:10

  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness have dried up; and their course is evil, and their might is not right.

• Lamentations 2:8

  YHWH has planned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he has stretched out the line; he has not drawn back his hand from swallowing up; and he has made rampart and wall mourn; together they languish.

• Ezekiel 7:12

  The time has come, the day has arrived; let the buyer not rejoice, and the seller not mourn, for burning anger is upon all her multitude.

• Ezekiel 7:27

  The king will mourn, and the chief will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will be terrified; according to their way I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them; and they will know that I am YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 31:15

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: ‘On the day it went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I covered the deep over it, and I held back its streams, and the many waters were restrained; and I put Lebanon in mourning for it, and all the trees of the field fainted for it.

• Daniel 10:2

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

• Hosea 4:3

  Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who lives in it will languish, with the animals of the field and with the birds of the heavens; and even the fish of the sea will be taken away.

• Hosea 10:5

  For the calves of Beth-aven the inhabitants of Samaria will be afraid; for its people will mourn over it, and its pagan priests who rejoiced over it, over its glory, because it has gone into exile from it.

• Joel 1:9

  The grain offering and the libation have been cut off from the house of YHWH; the priests, the ministers of YHWH, mourn.

• Joel 1:10

  The field is devastated, the ground mourns; for the grain is devastated, the new wine has dried up, the oil languishes.

• Amos 1:2

  And he said, “YHWH roars from Zion, and from Jerusalem utters his voice; and the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel dries up.”

• Amos 8:8

  Will not the earth tremble on account of this, and everyone who lives in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink like the Nile of Egypt.

• Amos 9:5

  And Adonai YHWH Tsevaot is the one who touches the earth, and it melts, and all who live in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks like the Nile of Egypt;

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