Lexicon :: Strong's H56 - 'āḇal

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

When the people heard this bad news, they mourned and didn’t put on their jewelry.

When Moses reported these words to all the Israelites, the people were overcome with grief.

God struck down the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD.[fn] He struck down seventy persons.[fn] The people mourned because the LORD struck them with a great slaughter.

Even to the day of his death, Samuel never saw Saul again. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted he had made Saul king over Israel.

The LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem because I have selected for myself a king from his sons.”

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

So Joab sent someone to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Pretend to be in mourning: dress in mourning clothes and don’t put on any oil. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.

It was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping. He’s mourning over Absalom.”

Their father Ephraim mourned a long time, and his relatives[fn] came to comfort him.

So his servants took him out of the war chariot, carried him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem. Then he died, and they buried him in the tomb of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night.[fn] He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for a number of days, fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.

Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the law.

He feels only the pain of his own body

and mourns only for himself.

Then her gates will lament and mourn;

deserted, she will sit on the ground.

Then the fishermen will mourn.

All those who cast hooks into the Nile will lament,

and those who spread nets on the water will give up.

The earth mourns and withers;

the world wastes away and withers;

the exalted people of the earth waste away.

The new wine mourns;

the vine withers.

All the carousers now groan.

The land mourns and withers;

Lebanon is ashamed and wilted.

Sharon is like a desert;

Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her,

all who love her.

Rejoice greatly with her,

all who mourn over her —

“Because of this, the earth will mourn;

the skies above will grow dark.

I have spoken; I have planned,

and I will not relent or turn back from it.”

How long will the land mourn

and the grass of every field wither?

Because of the evil of its residents,

animals and birds have been swept away,

for the people have said,

“He cannot see what our end will be.”[fn]

They have made it a desolation.

It mourns, desolate, before me.

All the land is desolate,

but no one takes it to heart.

Judah mourns;

her city gates languish.

Her people are on the ground in mourning;

Jerusalem’s cry rises up.

For the land is full of adulterers;

the land mourns because of the curse,

and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.

Their way of life[fn] has become evil,

and their power is not rightly used

The LORD determined to destroy

the wall of Daughter Zion.

He stretched out a measuring line

and did not restrain himself from destroying.

He made the ramparts and walls grieve;

together they waste away.

The time has come; the day has arrived.

Let the buyer not rejoice

and the seller not mourn,

for wrath is on her whole crowd.

The king will mourn;

the prince will be clothed in grief;

and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.

I will deal with them according to their own conduct,

and I will judge them by their own standards.

Then they will know that I am the LORD.

“ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: I caused grieving on the day the cedar went down to Sheol. I closed off the underground deep because of it:[fn] I held back the rivers of the deep, and its abundant water was restrained. I made Lebanon mourn on account of it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.

For this reason the land mourns,

and everyone who lives in it languishes,

along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky;

even the fish of the sea disappear.

The residents of Samaria will have anxiety

over the calf of Beth-aven.

Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it;

the people will mourn over it,

over its glory.

It will certainly go into exile.

Grain and drink offerings have been cut off

from the house of the LORD;

the priests, who are ministers of the LORD, mourn.

He said:

The LORD roars from Zion

and makes his voice heard from Jerusalem;

the pastures of the shepherds mourn,[fn]

and the summit of Carmel withers.

Because of this, won’t the land quake

and all who dwell in it mourn?

All of it will rise like the Nile;

it will surge and then subside

like the Nile in Egypt.

The Lord, the GOD of Armies —

he touches the earth;

it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn;

all of it rises like the Nile

and subsides like the Nile of Egypt.