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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:

  1. to mourn, lament
    1. (Qal) to mourn, lament
      1. of humans
      2. of inanimate objects (figuratively)
        1. of gates
        2. of land
    2. (Hiphil)
      1. to mourn, cause to mourn (figuratively)
    3. (Hithpael)
      1. to mourn
      2. play the mourner

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 6

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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