Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to bewail
KJV Usage: lament, mourn
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אָבַל (a.val) — to mourn. 1) to mourn, lament 1a) (Qal) to mourn, lament 1a1) of humans 1a2) of inanimate objects (fig.) 1a2a) of gates 1a2b) of land 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to mourn, cause to mourn (fig.) 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to mourn 1c2) play the mourner
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · אֵבֶל · אָבֵל
Grieve | verb qal, verb hit | ≈ אמל · אנה | ≠ גיל · מָשֹׂושׂ · שׂושׂ · שׂמח
to mourn = to experience grief and show this by one's actions; ◄ caused by bereavement, loss, or other difficult circumstances
GEN 37:34 · EXO 33:4 · NUM 14:39 · 1SA 6:19 · 1SA 15:35 · 1SA 16:1 · 2SA 13:37 · 2SA 14:2 · 2SA 14:2 · 2SA 19:2 · 1CH 7:22 · 2CH 35:24 · EZR 10:6 · NEH 1:4 · NEH 8:9 · JOB 14:22 · ISA 3:26 · ISA 19:8 · ISA 66:10 · JER 14:2 · EZK 7:12 · EZK 7:27 · DAN 10:2 · HOS 10:5 · JOL 1:9 · AMO 8:8 · AMO 9:5
Dry | verb qal | ≈ אמל · יבשׁ · נבל · קמל
to mourn, to wither, to languish = process by which plants and their products become devoid of moisture, and therefore lose color and bend over ◄ as if in mourning, ► which may ultimately result in death if circumstances do not change; ≈ associated with drought and destruction, often as punishment from God
ISA 24:4 · ISA 24:7 · ISA 33:9 · JER 4:28 · JER 12:4 · JER 12:11 · JER 23:10 · HOS 4:3 · JOL 1:10 · AMO 1:2
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
אָבַל 39 vb. mourn Qal mourn, lament
Hithp. mourn (mostly prose)
Hiph. cause to mourn
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