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Lexicon :: Strong's H3213 - yālal

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יָלַל
Transliteration
yālal
Pronunciation
yaw-lal'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 868

Strong’s Definitions

יָלַל yâlal, yaw-lal'; a primitive root; to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterous one):—(make to) howl, be howling.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x

The KJV translates Strong's H3213 in the following manner: howl (29x), howlings (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x
The KJV translates Strong's H3213 in the following manner: howl (29x), howlings (1x), variant (1x).

  1. (Hiphil) to howl, wail, make a howling

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָלַל yâlal, yaw-lal'; a primitive root; to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterous one):—(make to) howl, be howling.
STRONGS H3213: Abbreviations
[יָלַל] verb Hiph. howl, make a howling (onomatopoetic) —
Hiph. Perfect וְהֵילִל consecutive Jeremiah 47:2; וְהֵילִיל֫וּ consecutive Amos 8:3; Imperfect יְיֵלִיל Isaiah 15:2 3 times (Ges§ 70. 2, R. 2 Köi. 437, 421); אֲיֵלִיל Jeremiah 48:31; וְאֵילִי֫לָה Micah 1:8; יְיֵלִיל֫וּ Hosea 7:14 (Köi. 421); יְהֵילִי֫לוּ Isaiah 52:5; תִּיִלִי֫לוּ Isaiah 65:14; Imperative הֵילֵל Ezekiel 21:17; Zechariah 11:2; הֵילִי֫לִי Isaiah 14:31; Isaiah 49:3 + Jeremiah 48:20 Kt; הֵילִי֫לוּ Isaiah 13:6 13 times + Jeremiah 48:20 Qr, + Ezekiel 30:2 (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co); — utter or make a howling, give a howl, in distress, || זעק Hosea 7:14; Jeremiah 47:2; Isaiah 14:31; Jeremiah 25:34; Jeremiah 48:20,31 (followed by על), Ezekiel 21:17; || צעק Isaiah 65:14 (followed by מִן of occasion, source); || ספד Micah 1:8; Jeremiah 4:8; Joel 1:13; || הֹבִישׁ Joel 1:11; || בכה Joel 1:5 (compare Isaiah 15:2,3+ בֶּ֑כִי); followed by על Jeremiah 51:8; Isaiah 15:2,3; We proposes ילילו for יגילו Hosea 10:5 (others יחילו, see גיל above); followed by לְ Isaiah 16:7; absolute והילילו שׁירות היכל Amos 8:3 and palace-songs shall become howlings, Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 16:7; Isaiah 23:1,6,14; Jeremiah 48:39; Jeremiah 49:3 (Ezekiel 30:2 see above), Zephaniah 1:11; Zechariah 11:2 (twice in verse); in cruel exultation Isaiah 52:5 compare De Che di. — On הֵילֵל בֶּןשָֿׁ֑חַר Isaiah 14:12 compare below I. הלל above.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Isaiah

13:6; 13:6; 14:12; 14:31; 14:31; 15:2; 15:2; 15:2; 15:3; 15:3; 16:7; 16:7; 23:1; 23:6; 23:14; 49:3; 52:5; 52:5; 65:14; 65:14

Jeremiah

4:8; 25:34; 47:2; 47:2; 48:20; 48:20; 48:20; 48:31; 48:31; 48:39; 49:3; 51:8

Ezekiel

21:17; 21:17; 30:2; 30:2

Hosea

7:14; 7:14; 10:5

Joel

1:5; 1:11; 1:13

Amos

8:3; 8:3

Micah

1:8; 1:8

Zephaniah

1:11

Zechariah

11:2; 11:2

H3213

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Strong's Number H3213 matches the Hebrew יָלַל (yālal),
which occurs 31 times in 28 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:6 - Wail, for the day of the LORD is near;
as destruction from the Almighty[fn] it will come!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:31

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31 - Wail, O gate; cry out, O city;
melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes out of the north,
and there is no straggler in his ranks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:2 - He has gone up to the temple,[fn] and to Dibon,
to the high places[fn] to weep;
over Nebo and over Medeba
Moab wails.
On every head is baldness;
every beard is shorn;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:7 - Therefore let Moab wail for Moab,
let everyone wail.
Mourn, utterly stricken,
for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:1 - The oracle concerning Tyre.
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor!
From the land of Cyprus[fn]
it is revealed to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:6 - Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, O inhabitants of the coast!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:14 - Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your stronghold is laid waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:5 - Now therefore what have I here,” declares the LORD, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the LORD, “and continually all the day my name is despised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:14 - behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
but you shall cry out for pain of heart
and shall wail for breaking of spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 - For this put on sackcloth,
lament and wail,
for the fierce anger of the LORD
has not turned back from us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 - “Wail, you shepherds, and cry out,
and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock,
for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come,
and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 47:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:2 - “Thus says the LORD:
Behold, waters are rising out of the north,
and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow the land and all that fills it,
the city and those who dwell in it.
Men shall cry out,
and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:20 - Moab is put to shame, for it is broken;
wail and cry!
Tell it beside the Arnon,
that Moab is laid waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:31 - Therefore I wail for Moab;
I cry out for all Moab;
for the men of Kir-hareseth I mourn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:39 - How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - “Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah!
Put on sackcloth,
lament, and run to and fro among the hedges!
For Milcom shall go into exile,
with his priests and his officials.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:8 - Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
wail for her!
Take balm for her pain;
perhaps she may be healed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12 - Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:2 - “Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD:
“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:14 - They do not cry to me from the heart,
but they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
they rebel against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:5 - Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:11 - Be ashamed,[fn] O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:13 - Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;
wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, pass the night in sackcloth,
O ministers of my God!
Because grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:3 - The songs of the temple[fn] shall become wailings[fn] in that day,”
declares the Lord GOD.
“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
“Silence!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 - For this I will lament and wail;
I will go stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation like the jackals,
and mourning like the ostriches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:11 - Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar!
For all the traders[fn] are no more;
all who weigh out silver are cut off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:2 - Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
for the thick forest has been felled!
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