Lexicon :: Strong's H56 - 'āḇal

When the people heard this sad word, they mourned, and none of them put on his ornaments.

Moses spoke the Lord’s words to all the Israelites, and the people mourned greatly.

The LORD struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck down 50,070 men among the people, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter.

The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve for Saul, when I have rejected him as king over Israel? [fn]Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for Myself among his sons.”

But Absalom fled and went to [his mother’s father] Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David [fn]mourned for his son every day.

It was told to Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”

Now it came about when I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying [constantly] before the God of heaven.

Then Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the Law.

“But his body [lamenting its decay] grieves in pain over it,

And his soul mourns over [the loss of] himself.”

And Jerusalem’s gates will lament (cry out in grief) and mourn [as those who wail for the dead];

And she, being ruined and desolate, will sit upon the ground.

The fishermen will lament (cry out in grief),

And all those who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn,

And those who spread nets upon the waters will languish.

The new wine mourns,

The vine decays;

All the merry-hearted sigh and groan.

The land mourns and dries out,

Lebanon is shamed and [its lush foliage] withers;

[fn]Sharon is like a desert plain,

And [fn]Bashan and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves.

“Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her;

Rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her,

“For this reason the earth shall mourn

And the heavens above shall become dark,

Because I have spoken, I have decided,

And I will not change my mind (relent), nor will I turn back from it.”

How long must the land mourn

And the grass of the countryside wither?

Because of the wickedness and hypocrisy of those who live in it,

The beasts and the birds are consumed and are swept away [by the drought],

Because men [mocking me] have said, “He will not [live long enough to] see [what happens at] our final end.”

“They have made it a wasteland,

Desolate, it mourns before Me;

The whole land has been made a wasteland,

Because no man takes it to heart.

“Judah mourns

And her gates languish;

Her people sit on the ground in mourning clothes

And the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

For the land is full of adulterers (unfaithful to God);

The land mourns because of the curse [of God upon it].

The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.

The course of action [of the false prophets] is evil and they rush into wickedness;

And their power is not right.

The LORD determined to lay in ruins

The [city] wall of the Daughter of Zion.

He has stretched out a line,

He has not stopped His hand from destroying.

He has caused the rampart and the wall to lament (mourn in grief);

They have languished together.

‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “On the day when Assyria went down to Sheol (the place of the dead) I caused mourning; I closed the deep [subterranean waters] over it and restrained its rivers. And the many waters [that contributed to its prosperity] were held back; and I made [the heart of] Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away because of it.

In those days I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.

Therefore the land [continually] mourns,

And everyone who lives in it languishes [in tragic suffering]

Together with the animals of the open country and the birds of the heavens;

Even the fish of the sea disappear.

The people of Samaria will fear and tremble

For the [idolatrous] calf of [fn]Beth-aven (House of Wickedness).

Indeed, its people will mourn over it

And its idolatrous priests will cry out and wail over it,

Over its glory, because the glory [of their calf god] has departed from it.

The [daily] grain offering and the drink offering are cut off

From the house of the LORD;

The priests mourn

Who minister to the LORD.

And he said,

“The LORD thunders and roars from Zion [in judgment]

And utters His voice from Jerusalem;

Then the pastures of the shepherds mourn,

And the summit of [Mount] Carmel dries up [because of God’s judgment].”

“Because of this [coming judgment] will the land not quake

And everyone mourn who dwells in it?

Indeed, all of it shall rise up like the Nile,

And it will be tossed around [from the impact of judgment]

And [afterward] subside again like the Nile of Egypt.

The Lord GOD of hosts [the Omnipotent Ruler],

It is He who touches the earth [in judgment] and it melts,

And all who dwell on it mourn [in despair and fear],

And all of it rises up like the Nile

And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;