יְלָלָה
yelala · howling, wail
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3215 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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yelala (יְלָלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “howling, wail”.
A howling, a wail of grief.
How to say it
ye·la·la
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
- A long cry of grief.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- wailing ×4
- wail ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 15:8
For the cry has gone around the territory of Moab; as far as Eglaim its wailing, and Beer-elim its wailing.
- Jeremiah 25:36
The sound of the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the nobles of the flock! For YHWH is devastating their pasture,
- Zephaniah 1:10
And it will happen on that day, declares YHWH, that there will be the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and wailing from the Second Quarter, and a great crash from the hills.
- Zechariah 11:3
The sound of the wailing of the shepherds, for their splendor has been devastated; the sound of the roaring of young lions, for the thicket of the Jordan has been devastated.
And 1 more times.