evel · mourning

What it means

evel (אֵבֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mourning”.

Grief for one who has died.

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. Weeping for the dead or a disaster.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• Esther×2
• Job×1
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×3
• Micah×1

• Genesis 27:41

  Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill Jacob my brother.”

• Genesis 50:10

  They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a great and very solemn lamentation; and he observed a mourning of seven days for his father.

• Genesis 50:11

  When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

• Deuteronomy 34:8

  And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping in mourning for Moses were completed.

• 2 Samuel 11:27

  When the mourning was over, David sent and gathered her into his house; and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the eyes of YHWH.

• 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 19:2

  So the salvation on that day became mourning for all the people, for the people heard on that day, saying, “The king is grieved for his son.”

• Esther 4:3

  And in every province, in the place where the word of the king and his law reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting and weeping and lamenting; sackcloth and ashes were spread out for many.

• Esther 9:22

  as the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of banqueting and gladness, and of sending portions each to his companion, and gifts to the needy.

• Job 30:31

  And my lyre has become mourning, and my flute the voice of those who weep.

• Ecclesiastes 7:2

  Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, because that is the end of every human being, and the living will lay it to his heart.

• Ecclesiastes 7:4

  The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, and the heart of the senseless in the house of joy.

• Isaiah 60:20

  Your sun will no longer set, nor will your moon wane; for YHWH will be your eternal light, and the days of your mourning will be ended.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 6:26

  Daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

• Jeremiah 16:7

  Nor will people break bread for them in mourning to comfort him for the dead, nor give them to drink the cup of consolation for his father or for his mother.

• Jeremiah 31:13

  Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and I will comfort them and make them rejoice out of their sorrow.

• Lamentations 5:15

  The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing has been turned into mourning.

• Ezekiel 24:17

  Groan in silence; mourning for the dead you shall not make; your headdress bind on yourself, and your sandals put on your feet, and you shall not cover your mustache, and bread of men you shall not eat.”

• Amos 5:16

  Therefore thus says YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, Adonai: In all the squares there will be lamenting, and in all the streets they will say, “Alas! Alas!” And they will call the farmer to mourning, and to lamenting those skilled in wailing.

• Amos 8:10

  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into a funeral song; and I will bring up on all loins sackcloth, and on every head baldness; and I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

• Micah 1:8

  Because of this I will lament and wail; I will go barefoot and naked; I will make a lament like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

And 2 more times.