אֵבֶל evel

Hebrew word for “mourning” · Strong’s H60 · used 24 times in 22 verses

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Meaning

1) mourning; 1a) for the dead; 1b) for rites of mourning (metaph); 1c) mourning garb; 1d) period of mourning

How it is translated

Glosses given for evel in context, with how often each is used:

• mourning 23
• like the mourning 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 50 (2), Ecclesiastes 7 (2), Genesis 27 (1), Deuteronomy 34 (1), 2 Samuel 11 (1), 2 Samuel 14 (1), 2 Samuel 19 (1), Esther 4 (1), Esther 9 (1), Job 30 (1)

Forms

• אבל 13
• לאבל 4
• האבל 2
• ומאבל 1
• אבלך 1
• אבלם 1
• כאבל 1
• ואבל 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with evel more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מִסְפֵּד misped “mourning” 5
• הָפַךְ haphakh “to overturn” 4
• אֵפֶר epher “ashes” 3
• שַׂק saq “sackcloth” 3
• אָטָד atad “bramble” 2
• מָחוֹל machol “dance” 2
• פְּאֵר peer “headdress” 2
• יָחִיד yachid “only” 2
• לֵב lev “heart” 4
• יָגוֹן yagon “sorrow” 2
• שָׂשׂוֹן sasvon “rejoicing” 2
• סָפַד saphad “to mourn” 2

Key verses

The verses using evel that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 27:41 — And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then…
• Genesis 50:10 — And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for…
• 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 mourning apparel, and…
• Esther 9:22 — As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that…
• Ecclesiastes 7:2 — It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
• Isaiah 61:3 — To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;…
• Jeremiah 6:26 — O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the…
• Jeremiah 31:13 — Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them…
• Ezekiel 24:17 — Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not…
• Amos 5:16 — Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall…
• Amos 8:10 — And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and…
• Micah 1:8 — Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.