# אָבַל (aval)

Israeli respelling: a-val. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H56. 38 Old Testament occurrences.

to bewail

King James renderings: lament, mourn.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/aval-h56

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 37:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/34) — And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- [Exodus 33:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/33/4) — And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
- [Numbers 14:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/39) — And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
- [1 Samuel 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/19) — And 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 three…
- [1 Samuel 15:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/35) — And 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 mad…
- [1 Samuel 16:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/16/1) — And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn wit…
- [2 Samuel 13:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/37) — But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
- [2 Samuel 14:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/2) — And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mou…
- [2 Samuel 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/1) — And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
- [1 Chronicles 7:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/7/22) — And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
- [2 Chronicles 35:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/35/24) — His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and…
- [Ezra 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/6) — Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did…
- [Nehemiah 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/1/4) — And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of…
- [Nehemiah 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/8/9) — And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, Thi…
- [Job 14:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/22) — But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
- [Isaiah 3:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/3/26) — And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
- [Isaiah 19:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/19/8) — The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall la…
- [Isaiah 24:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/24/4) — The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
- [Isaiah 24:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/24/7) — The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
- [Isaiah 33:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/9) — The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fr…
- [Isaiah 66:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/10) — Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
- [Jeremiah 4:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/28) — For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither…
- [Jeremiah 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/4) — How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed,…
- [Jeremiah 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/11) — They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
- [Jeremiah 14:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/2) — Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
- [Jeremiah 23:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/10) — For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and thei…
- [Lamentations 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/8) — The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destr…
- [Ezekiel 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/12) — The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
- [Ezekiel 7:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/27) — The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do…
- [Ezekiel 31:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/15) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the fl…
- [Daniel 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/2) — In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
- [Hosea 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/3) — Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of hea…
- [Hosea 10:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/5) — The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereo…
- [Joel 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/9) — The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
- [Joel 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/10) — The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- [Amos 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/1/2) — And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the to…
- [Amos 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/8) — Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cas…
- [Amos 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/9/5) — And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up who…