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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - אָבַל
אָבַל
H56
Transliteration: ʼâbal
Pronunciation: aw-bal'
Definition: lament
Original: אבל Transliteration: 'âbal Phonetic: aw-bal'
BDB Definition:
- to mourn, lament
- (Qal) to mourn, lament
- of humans
- of inanimate objects (figuratively)
- of gates
- of land
- (Hiphil)
- to mourn, cause to mourn (figuratively)
- (Hithpael)
- to mourn
- play the mourner
- (Qal) to mourn, lament