אָבַל (ʾābal) is a Hebrew verb meaning mourn. It appears 39 times in 18 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H56).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 6)

Root family 6: אָבַל ʾābal — I, mourn, lament. (ASV and RSV translate similarly, but more uniformly “mourn,” while RSV occasionally reads “grieve.”)

• אֵבֶל ʾēbel — mourning
• אָבֵל ʾābēl — mourning

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