To mourn
אָבַלStrong’s H0056aval (a-val)
Appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aval is the Hebrew word usually translated “mourning”, “mourned” and “it has dried up”. It appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament.
“In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.”
Meaning
- To mourn, lament(Qal) to mourn, lament · (Hiphil) · (Hithpael)
How it's translated
- mourning 5
- and he mourned 4
- it has dried up 4
- and they mourned 3
- and they will mourn 2
- it will mourn 2
- it is in mourning 2
- he mourned 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 6
- Jeremiah 5
- 1 Samuel 3
- 2 Samuel 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Amos 3
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 37:34And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Exodus 33:4And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
- Numbers 14:39And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
- 1 Samuel 6:19And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
- 1 Samuel 15:35And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
- 1 Samuel 16:1And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
All 38 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אָבַל aval · 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mourn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOURN, verb intransitive
[Latin maereo.]
- To express grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful.“Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep” Genesis 23:2“Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted” Matthew 5:4
- To wear the customary habit of sorrow.
All definitions and other forms of “mourn”
MOURN, verb transitive
To grieve for; to lament. But there is an ellipsis of for, the verb not being transitive. When we say, we mourn a friend or a child, the real sense and complete phrase is, we mourn for a friend, or mourn for the loss of a friend. 'He mourn'd his rival's ill success, ' that is, he mourned for his rival's ill success.
- To utter in a sorrowful manner.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.