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אָבֵל

avel · mourning

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H57 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

avel (אָבֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mourning”.

Grieving over a death.

How to say it

a·vel

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. One who is in mourning for the dead or for a loss, and covers his head.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • mourn ×4
  • mourning ×2
  • as one who weeps for ×1
  • mourners ×1

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 37:35

    All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, “Indeed, I will go down to my son mourning, to Sheol.” Thus his father wept for him.

  • Esther 6:12

    And Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

  • Job 29:25

    I chose their way and sat as head, and dwelt like a king among the troops, like one who comforts mourners.

  • Psalms 35:14

    As for a companion, as for a brother of mine I went about; as one who weeps for a mother, in mourning I bowed low.

  • Isaiah 57:18

    His ways I have seen, and I will heal him; and I will lead him, and restore comforts to him and to those of his who mourn,

  • Isaiah 61:2

    to proclaim the year of favor of YHWH and the day of vengeance of our Elohim, to comfort all who mourn;

  • Isaiah 61:3

    to appoint for those who mourn in Zion, to give them a headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; and they will be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of YHWH, to glorify himself.

  • Lamentations 1:4

    The roads of Zion mourn, because no one comes to the appointed feast; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins are grieved, and as for her, it is bitter for her.