Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H57: אָבֵל

ʼâbêl · pronounced aw-bale' · “mourning”

Definition

lamenting

KJV translates it as: mourn(-er, -ing).

Word origin: from H56 (אָבַל);

Extended definition

1) mourning
1a) for the dead
1b) because of calamity
1c) of rites of mourning
2) mourner (subst.)
2a) for the dead
2b) for calamity

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H57 is translated

  • mourning ×2
  • mourners ×2
  • a mourner of ×1
  • his ×1
  • the mourners of ×1
  • are mourning ×1

Bible verses with H57 (ʼâbêl)

ʼâbêl appears in 8 verses.

  • Genesis 37:35

    And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

  • Esther 6:12

    And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

  • Job 29:25

    I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

  • Psalms 35:14

    I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

  • Isaiah 57:18

    I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

  • Isaiah 61:2

    To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

  • Isaiah 61:3

    To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

  • Lamentations 1:4

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.