UBS Hebrew Dictionary Article

Definition: = process by which plants and their products become devoid of moisture, and therefore lose color and bend over ◄ as if in mourning, ► which may ultimately result in death if circumstances do not change; ≈ associated with drought and destruction, often as punishment from God

Forms: vbqal-

Synonyms: אמל · יבשׁ · נבל · קמל

Show passage in OET: ISA 24:4

OET-RV ISA 24:4

4 The land has dried up and everything has withered.
⇔ ≈ The world has declined and withered.
⇔ ≈ Its prominent people declined as well.

OET-LV ISA 24:4

4 It _has _dried _up the_earth/land it _has _withered it _has _languished the_world it _has _withered the _noble[s]_of the _people _of the_earth/land they _have _languished.

Show passage in OET: ISA 24:7

OET-RV ISA 24:7

7 The new wine has dried up—the grapevine has deteriorated.
⇔ All the people who were cheery are now groaning.

OET-LV ISA 24:7

7 New _wine it _has _dried _up the_vine it _has _languished all _of the _people_joyful _of heart they _have _groaned.

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All 10 recorded passages for this sense

ISA: OET ISA 24:4 · OET ISA 24:7 · OET ISA 33:9

JER: OET JER 4:28 · OET JER 12:4 · OET JER 12:11 · OET JER 23:10

HOS: OET HOS 4:3

JOL: OET JOL 1:10

AMO: OET AMO 1:2

Sense 3: to cause to mourn

Semantic domains: Grieve (002001002013)

Core domains: Joy and Grief (093); Mourning (109); Well-Being (196)

Definition: = causative action by which deities cause or allow humans to experience grief ◄ as a result of bereavement, loss, or other difficult circumstances; ≈ in all cases personified to apply to inanimate objects such as parts of nature or buildings

Forms: vbhif-

Show passage in OET: LAM 2:8

OET-RV LAM 2:8

8 Yahweh planned to destroy the wall of the daughter that’s Tsiyon.
⇔ He stretched out the measuring line.
⇔ He didn’t withhold his hand from devouring,
⇔ and he’s brought the ramparts and wall to mourning. Together they wasted away.

OET-LV LAM 2:8

8 YHWH he _has _planned to_destroy the _wall _of the _daughter _of Tsiyyōn he _has _stretched _out a _measuring-line not he _has _turned _back his/its_hand from_swallowing _up and_he _has _caused _to _mourn rampart and_wall together they _have _languished.

Show passage in OET: EZE 31:15

OET-RV EZE 31:15

15 The master Yahweh says this: On the day when the cedar went down to the place of the dead, I brought mourning to the earth. I covered the deep waters over it, and I held back the oceans. I held back the great waters, and I brought mourning to Levanon for it. So all the trees in the countryside mourned because of it.

OET-LV EZE 31:15

15 Thus my_master YHWH he _says in/on_day it_went _down Shəʼōl_to I _caused _mourning I _covered on/upon/above_him/it DOM the _deep and_I _withheld rivers _of_its and_ waters many _they _were _restrained and_I _made _mourn on/upon/above_him/it Ləⱱānōn and_all the _trees _of the_field on/upon/above_him/it were_wilted.

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UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

אבל

Form 1

Sense 1: to mourn

Sense 2: to mourn, to wither, to languish

Sense 3: to cause to mourn