--- title: אָבַל — mourn · The Tanakh dictionary description: אָבַל (lemma:אָבַל), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: mourn. BDB 1906: vb. mourn mourn. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5d1_5b7_5dc.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488.md)‎ / אָבַל‎ # אָבַל «אָבַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mourn** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 7 times · **Key:** lemma:אָבַל · **BDB:** אָבַל ### Glosses it.has.dried.up (3); it.is.dried.up (1); it.will.dry.up (1) ### Meaning (OSHB) mourn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5d1_5b7_5dc/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) vb. mourn mourn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5d1_5b7_5dc/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** vb. mourn (Assyrian \[abâlu\] v. DlW)— Pf. אָבַל Is 24:7 + 2 times etc. Impf. 3 fs. תֶּאֱבַל Ho 4:3 + 3 times—mourn, lament (poet. \& higher style); abs., human subj. Jo 1:9 Am 8:8; 9:5 Is 19:8 (‖ אנה) cf. Jb 14:22 (subj. נַפְשׁוֹ); sq. על Ho 10:5; more often fig., inanim. subj., gates Is 3:26; land 24:4; 33:9 Ho 4:3 Jo 1:10 Je 4:28 (sq. על) 12:4; 23:10 cf. 12:11 (sq. על), יְהוּדָה 14:2; pastures Am 1:2. —Pf. הִתְאַבֵּל 1 S 15:35; Impf. יִתְאַבָּ֑ל Ez 7:12, 27; וַיִּתְאַבֵּל Gn 37:34 + 3 times etc.; Imv. fs. הִתְאַבְּלִי 2 S 14:2; Pt. מִתְאַבֵּל 1 S 16:1 + 2 times etc.;—mourn (mostly prose) especially for dead, sq. על Gn 37:34 2 S 13:37; 14:2; 19:2 (‖ בכה) 2 Ch 35:24, cf. also Is 66:10 (over Jerusalem); abs. 1 Ch 7:22; cf. 2 S 14:2 play the mourner (where indic. by dress); over unworthy Saul sq. אֶל 1 S 15:35; 16:1; over sin sq. על Ezr 10:6 cf. (abs.) Ne 8:9; judgment of י׳ Ex 33:4 abs. (indic. by dress), Nu 14:39 Ez 7:27 (del. B Co); sq. כִּי 1 S 6:19; calamity Ne 1:4 Ez 7:12 cf. Dn 10:2. Pf. הֶאֱבַלְתִּי Ez 31:15; Impf. וַיַּאֲבֶל־ La 2:8;—cause to mourn; Ez 31:15 abs. MT, but A B Co obj. תהום sq. על, caused the deep to mourn over; La 2:8 obj. wall etc.; (both these fig.; cf. Qal). Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «אָבַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5d1_5b7_5dc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Isaiah 24:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.7/) אָבַ֥ל תִּיר֖וֹשׁ אֻמְלְלָה־גָ֑פֶן נֶאֶנְח֖וּ כָּל־שִׂמְחֵי־לֵֽב׃ *Word for word:* it.has.dried.up new.wine it.has.languished \[the\].vine they.have.groaned all \[the.people\].joyful of.heart *JPS 1917:* The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh. [Joel 1:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.10/) שֻׁדַּ֣ד שָׂדֶ֔ה אָבְלָ֖ה אֲדָמָ֑ה כִּ֚י שֻׁדַּ֣ד דָּגָ֔ן הוֹבִ֥ישׁ תִּיר֖וֹשׁ אֻמְלַ֥ל יִצְהָֽר׃ *Word for word:* it.is.devastated \[the\].field\[s\] it.is.dried.up \[the\].ground (dm) it.is.devastated \[the\].grain it.has.dried.up \[the\].new.wine it.has.languished \[the\].fresh.oil *JPS 1917:* The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. - ← previous: [אֲבָל](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/61.md) - next →: [אֶבֶן](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/68.md) - ↑ back to [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488.md)