Strong's Concordance abel: mourning Original Word: אָבֵלPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: abel Phonetic Spelling: (aw-bale') Short Definition: mourning Brown-Driver-Briggs I. אָבֵל adjective mourning — ׳א Genesis 37:35; Esther 6:12; construct אֲבֶלֿ Psalm 35:14; אֲבֵלִים Job 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 Strong's Exhaustive Concordance mourner, From 'abal; lamenting -- mourn(-er, -ing). see HEBREW 'abal Forms and Transliterations אֲבֵל֗וֹת אֲבֵלִ֣ים אֲבֵלִֽים׃ אָבֵ֖ל אבל אבלות אבלים אבלים׃ וְלַאֲבֵלָֽיו׃ ולאבליו׃ כַּאֲבֶל־ כאבל־ לַאֲבֵלֵ֣י לאבלי ’ă·ḇê·lîm ’ă·ḇê·lō·wṯ ’ā·ḇêl ’āḇêl ’ăḇêlîm ’ăḇêlōwṯ aVel aveLim aveLot ka’ăḇel- ka·’ă·ḇel- kaavel la’ăḇêlê la·’ă·ḇê·lê laaveLei velaaveLav wə·la·’ă·ḇê·lāw wəla’ăḇêlāwLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 578 Occurrences ’ā·ḇêl — 2 Occ. ’ă·ḇê·lîm — 2 Occ. ’ă·ḇê·lō·wṯ — 1 Occ. ka·’ă·ḇel- — 1 Occ. la·’ă·ḇê·lê — 1 Occ. wə·la·’ă·ḇê·lāw — 1 Occ. 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 Job 29:25 Psalm 35:14 Isaiah 57:18 Isaiah 61:2 Isaiah 61:3 Lamentations 1:4 |
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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).