Word

אָבֵל

ʼâbêl · H57 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

in mourning

Pertaining to being in a state of grief, caused by bereavement, loss, or other difficult circumstances, and which is shown by one's actions

Examples
Genesis 37:35 Then all his sons and all his daughters got up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Esther 6:12 Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, while Haman hurried home, mourning, with his head covered.
Job 29:25 “I chose a way for them and sat as chief, And lived as a king among the troops, As one who comforted the mourners.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

אֵםmother 1
צִיּוֹןZion 1
הוּhis 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

נָחַםto comfort, to relent, to be sorry 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

דֶּרֶךְway, road 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 3
כlike/as 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Grieve002001002013: אָבֵל describes a person in mourning, as Jacob going down to Sheol in mourning for his son.
Names of Locations003001010: The word also forms part of several place names, such as Abel-beth-maacah, likely reflecting a mourning tradition associated with the site.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָבַל ʼâbal · H56 · to mourn, to wither, to languish · 39×אֵבֶל ʼêbel · H60 · mourning · 24×אָבֵלʼâbêl · H57

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H57. abel I. אָבֵל adjective mourning — ׳א Gen 37:35; Est 6:12; construct אֲבֶלֿ Psa…

H57. abel
I. אָבֵל adjective mourning — ׳א Gen 37:35; Est 6:12; construct אֲבֶלֿ Psa 35:14; אֲבֵלִים Job 29:25; Isa 61:2 etc.; — for dead Gen 37:35, calamity Est 6:12, compare figurative Lam 1:4 (predicate, inanimate subject), elsewhere as substantive mourner; singular Psa 35:14 (construct) for dead (|| קדר); plural Job 29:25 absolute; for calamity Isa 57:18; Isa 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).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Grieve8 occurrences Names of Locations0 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0