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# אָבֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H57

**mourning** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

mourning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/57/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָבֵל: adj. mourning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/57/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. mourning—א׳ Gn 37:35 Est 6:12; cstr. אֲבֶל־ ψ 35:14; אֲבֵלִים Jb 29:25 Is 61:2 etc.;—for dead Gn 37:35 (cp. 50:11), calamity Est 6:12; fig. La 1:4 (pred., inanim. subj.), elsewhere as subst. mourner; sg. ψ 35:14 (cstr.) for dead (‖ קדר; pl. Jb 29:25 abs.; for calamity Is 57:18; 61:2, 3 (where mourners for Zion, or of Zion, v. Di).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: mourners (2); mourning (2); \[are\] mourning (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 35:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.14/#tree)

כְּרֵֽעַ־כְּאָ֣ח לִ֭י הִתְהַלָּ֑כְתִּי כַּאֲבֶל־אֵ֝֗ם קֹדֵ֥ר שַׁחֽוֹתִי׃

*Word for word:* like a.friend like a.brother my I.went.about like a.mourner of.a.mother mourning I.bowed

*JPS 1917:* I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother; I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother.

[Isaiah 61:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.61.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.61.2/#tree)

לִקְרֹ֤א שְׁנַת־רָצוֹן֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה וְי֥וֹם נָקָ֖ם לֵאלֹהֵ֑ינוּ לְנַחֵ֖ם כָּל־אֲבֵלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* to proclaim a.year of.favor of Yahweh and a.day of.vengeance of God our to comfort all mourners

*JPS 1917:* To proclaim the year of the LORD'S good pleasure, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/57.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/57/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).