Strong Hebrew #57 - אָבֵל abel (mourning)
| Original Word: | אָבֵל |
| Transliteration: | abel |
| Definition: | mourning |
| Part of Speech: | Adjective |
| Phonetic Spelling: | (aw-bale') |
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
mourner,
From 'abal; lamenting -- mourn(-er, -ing).
see HEBREW 'abal
Englishman's Concordance
1) mourning
1a) for the dead
1b) because of calamity
1c) of rites of mourning
2) mourner (substantive)
2a) for the dead
2b) for calamity
Part of Speech: adjective
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H56
Same Word by TWOT Number: 6b
Brown-Driver-Briggs
I.
אָבֵלadjective mourning —
׳אGenesis 37:35;
Esther 6:12; construct
אֲבֶלֿPsalm 35:14;
אֲבֵלִיםJob 29:25;
Isaiah 61:2 etc.; — for dead
Genesis 37:35, calamity
Esther 6:12, compare figurative
Lamentations 1:4 (predicate, inanimate subject), elsewhere as substantive
mourner; singular
Psalm 35:14 (construct) for dead (""
קדר); plural
Job 29:25 absolute; for calamity
Isaiah 57:18;
Isaiah 61:2,3(where mourners for Zion, or of Zion, see Di).
II. אבל (perhaps 
grow green, compare 
grass; LagBN 45 proposes 
withstand, hence אָבֵל as withstanding scorching sun (protected by trees, springs, etc.), hence also (Lag) 
camel). Etymologogical conjectures very dubious; connection (Lag.) of 
withstand, with 
herbage, forage (sometimes dry) improbable, and of latter with 
herd of camels obscure; √ meaning grow green unattested; Syriac 
, 
, Talmud יַבְלָא, Punic ιεβαλ, 'grass,' apparently=a specific kind of fodder, ἄγρωστις, see LöwNo. 141 (GFM, privately).
Englishman's Concordance (References)
Strong's Hebrew: 57. אָבֵל (abel) — 8 Occurrences
Genesis 37:35
HEB:אֶל־ בְּנִ֛י אָבֵ֖ל שְׁאֹ֑לָה וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ
NAS: to Sheol in mourning for my son.
KJV: unto my son mourning. Thus his father
INT: about my son mourning to Sheol wept
Esther 6:12
HEB:אֶל־ בֵּית֔וֹ אָבֵ֖ל וַחֲפ֥וּי רֹֽאשׁ׃
NAS: home, mourning, with [his] head
KJV: to his house mourning, and having his head
INT: about home mourning covered with head
Job 29:25
HEB:בַּגְּד֑וּד כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר אֲבֵלִ֣ים יְנַחֵֽם׃
NAS: As one who comforted the mourners.
KJV: as one [that] comforteth the mourners.
INT: the troops after mourners comforted
Psalm 35:14
HEB:לִ֭י הִתְהַלָּ֑כְתִּי כַּאֲבֶל־ אֵ֝֗ם קֹדֵ֥ר
NAS: mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.
KJV: heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother.
INT: brother went one A mother mourning
Isaiah 57:18
HEB:נִֽחֻמִ֛ים ל֖וֹ וְלַאֲבֵלָֽיו׃
NAS: comfort to him and to his mourners,
KJV: comforts unto him and to his mourners.
INT: and restore comfort his mourners
Isaiah 61:2
HEB:לְנַחֵ֖ם כָּל־ אֲבֵלִֽים׃
NAS: To comfort all who mourn,
KJV: of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
INT: to comfort all mourn
Isaiah 61:3
HEB: לָשׂ֣וּם ׀ לַאֲבֵלֵ֣י צִיּ֗וֹן לָתֵת֩
NAS: To grant those who mourn [in] Zion,
KJV: To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,
INT: to grant mourn Zion Giving
Lamentations 1:4
HEB:דַּרְכֵ֨י צִיּ֜וֹן אֲבֵל֗וֹת מִבְּלִי֙ בָּאֵ֣י
NAS: of Zion are in mourning Because
KJV: of Zion do mourn, because none come
INT: the roads of Zion mourning no comes
grow green, compare 
grass; LagBN 45 proposes 
withstand, hence 
camel). Etymologogical conjectures very dubious; connection (Lag.) of 
withstand, with 
herbage, forage (sometimes dry) improbable, and of latter with 
herd of camels obscure; √ meaning grow green unattested; Syriac 
, 
, Talmud