Occurrences
ʼâbal occurs 39 times in 38 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (1), Numbers (1), 1 Samuel (3), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (2), Job (1), Isaiah (6), Jeremiah (5), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (3), Daniel (1), Hosea (2), Joel (2), Amos (3)
- Genesis 37:34 — And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned (וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֥ל) for his son many days.
- Exodus 33:4 — And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned (וַיִּתְאַבָּ֑לוּ): and no man did put on him his ornaments.
- Numbers 14:39 — And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned (וַיִּֽתְאַבְּל֥וּ) greatly.
- 1 Samuel 6:19 — And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented (וַיִּֽתְאַבְּל֣וּ), because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
- 1 Samuel 15:35 — And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned (הִתְאַבֵּ֥ל) for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
- 1 Samuel 16:1 — And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn (מִתְאַבֵּ֣ל) for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
- 2 Samuel 13:37 — But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned (וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֥ל) for his son every day.
- 2 Samuel 14:2 — And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner (הִֽתְאַבְּלִי), and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
- 2 Samuel 14:2 — And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned (מִתְאַבֶּ֖לֶת) for the dead:
- 2 Samuel 19:1 — And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth (וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֖ל) for Absalom.
- 1 Chronicles 7:22 — And Ephraim their father mourned (וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֛ל) many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
- 2 Chronicles 35:24 — His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned (מִֽתְאַבְּלִ֖ים) for Josiah.
- Ezra 10:6 — Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned (מִתְאַבֵּ֖ל) because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
- Nehemiah 1:4 — And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned (וָאֶתְאַבְּלָ֖ה) certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
- Nehemiah 8:9 — And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn (תִּֽתְאַבְּל֖וּ) not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
- Job 14:22 — But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn (תֶּאֱבָֽל).
- Isaiah 3:26 — And her gates shall lament and mourn (וְאָבְל֖וּ); and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
- Isaiah 19:8 — The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament (וְאָ֣בְל֔וּ), and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
- Isaiah 24:4 — The earth mourneth (אָבְלָ֤ה) and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
- Isaiah 24:7 — The new wine mourneth (אָבַ֥ל), the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
- Isaiah 33:9 — The earth mourneth (אָבַ֤ל) and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
- Isaiah 66:10 — Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn (הַמִּֽתְאַבְּלִ֖ים) for her:
- Jeremiah 4:28 — For this shall the earth mourn (תֶּאֱבַ֣ל), and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
- Jeremiah 12:4 — How long shall the land mourn (תֶּאֱבַ֣ל), and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
- Jeremiah 12:11 — They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth (אָבְלָ֥ה) unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
- Jeremiah 14:2 — Judah mourneth (אָבְלָ֣ה), and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
- Jeremiah 23:10 — For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth (אָבְלָ֣ה); the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
- Lamentations 2:8 — The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament (וַיַּֽאֲבֶל); they languished together.
- Ezekiel 7:12 — The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn (יִתְאַבָּ֑ל): for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
- Ezekiel 7:27 — The king shall mourn (יִתְאַבָּ֗ל), and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 31:15 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning (הֶאֱבַ֜לְתִּי): I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
- Daniel 10:2 — In those days I Daniel was mourning (מִתְאַבֵּ֔ל) three full weeks.
- Hosea 4:3 — Therefore shall the land mourn (תֶּאֱבַ֣ל), and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
- Hosea 10:5 — The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn (אָבַ֨ל) over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
- Joel 1:9 — The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn (אָֽבְלוּ֙).
- Joel 1:10 — The field is wasted, the land mourneth (אָבְלָ֖ה); for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- Amos 1:2 — And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn (וְאָֽבְלוּ֙), and the top of Carmel shall wither.
- Amos 8:8 — Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn (וְאָבַ֖ל) that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
- Amos 9:5 — And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn (וְאָבְל֖וּ): and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.