yalal · howl, wail

What it means

yalal (יָלַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “howl, wail”.

To howl, to wail: to cry out loud in grief or alarm.

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 let out a long, loud cry of pain at disaster.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Wail ×27
• wails ×2
• howl ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Isaiah×11
• Jeremiah×8
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Joel×3
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×2

• Isaiah 13:6

  Wail, for the day of YHWH is near; like devastation from Shaddai it will come.

• Isaiah 14:31

  Wail, gate! Cry out, city! Melt away, Philistia, all of you! For from the north smoke is coming, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

• Isaiah 15:2

  He goes up to the house and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails; on all its heads baldness, every beard shaved off.

• Isaiah 15:3

  In its streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares all of it wails, going down in weeping.

• Isaiah 16:7

  Therefore Moab will wail for Moab, all of it will wail; for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth you will murmur, utterly stricken.

• Isaiah 23:1

  The burden of Tyre. Wail, ships of Tarshish, for it is devastated, without house, without entrance; from the land of Kittim it was revealed to them.

• Isaiah 23:6

  Cross over to Tarshish; wail, inhabitants of the coastland!

• Isaiah 23:14

  Wail, ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is devastated.

• Isaiah 52:5

  And now, what do I have here, declares YHWH, since my people have been taken for nothing? Their rulers howl, declares YHWH, and continually, all the day, my name is despised.

• Isaiah 65:14

  look, my servants will shout for joy from goodness of heart, but you will cry out from pain of heart, and from the shattering of spirit you will wail.

• Jeremiah 4:8

  For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail, for the burning anger of YHWH has not turned back from us.

• Jeremiah 25:34

  Wail, you shepherds, and cry out, and roll in the dust, you nobles of the flock, for your days for slaughter are fulfilled, and for your scatterings, and you will fall like a precious vessel.

• Jeremiah 47:2

  Thus says YHWH: Look, waters are rising from the north and will become an overflowing torrent; and they will overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it; and the people will cry out, and every inhabitant of the land will wail,

• Jeremiah 48:20

  Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed; wail and cry out! Declare in the Arnon that Moab is devastated.

• Jeremiah 48:31

  Therefore over Moab I will wail, and for Moab, all of it, I will cry out; for the men of Kir-heres one moans.

• Jeremiah 48:39

  How it is dismayed! Wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! And Moab will become a laughingstock and a terror to all who are around him.

• Jeremiah 49:3

  Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Gird on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the enclosures; for their king will go into exile, his priests and his princes together.

• Jeremiah 51:8

  Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

• Ezekiel 21:12

  Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the chiefs of Israel. Thrown to the sword they are with my people; therefore strike your thigh.

• Ezekiel 30:2

  “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Wail, “Ah, the day!”

• Hosea 7:14

  And they do not cry out to me with their heart, but they wail on their beds; for grain and new wine they gather themselves; they turn away from me.

• Joel 1:5

  Wake up, drunkards, and weep; and wail, all who drink wine, over the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

• Joel 1:11

  Be ashamed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley, for the harvest of the field has perished.

• Joel 1:13

  Put on sackcloth and lament, priests; wail, ministers of the altar; come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my Elohim; for grain offering and libation are withheld from the house of your Elohim.

• Amos 8:3

  And the songs of the temple will wail on that day, declares Adonai YHWH; many will be the corpses; in every place they will be thrown out. Silence!”

• 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.

• Zephaniah 1:11

  Wail, inhabitants of the Hollow, for all the people of Canaan have been destroyed; all who are laden with silver have been cut off.

• Zechariah 11:2

  Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the nobles have been devastated. Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has come down.

And 2 more times.