ילל (yll) — to wail / to howl | UBS Hebrew Dictionary

Notes: Passage: OET JER 48:20
MT-K הילילי | MT-Q הֵילִילוּ

Form 1

Part of speech: vb

Related lemmas: יְלֵל · יְלָלָה · תֹּולָל

Sense 1: to wail, to howl

Semantic domains: Sounds (002004001009007)

Core domains: Communication (041); Joy and Grief (093)

Definition: = action by which humans utter a high-pitched cry to give expression to an emotion, which is usually grief or distress, but can also be triumph and glee

Forms: vbhif-

Synonyms: בכה · בְּכִי · הגה · זעק · ספד · צעק

Show passage in OET: ISA 13:6

OET-RV ISA 13:6

6 Start wailing because Yahweh’s day is close,
⇔ ≈ and destruction from the powerful one will come.

OET-LV ISA 13:6

6 Wail if/because is_near the _day _of YHWH like_devastation from_the_almighty it _will _come.

Show passage in OET: ISA 14:31

OET-RV ISA 14:31

31 Wail, you gate. Cry out, you city.
⇔ Peleshet, all of you will melt away,
⇔ because smoke comes from the north,
⇔ and no soldier is alone in his ranks.

OET-LV ISA 14:31

31 Wail Oh _gate cry _out Oh _city it _has _melted _away Pəleshet of _you _of_all if/because from_the_north smoke is_coming and_there_is_not an _isolated_one among_ranks _of_its.

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All 28 recorded passages for this sense

ISA: OET ISA 13:6 · OET ISA 14:31 · OET ISA 15:2–3 · OET ISA 16:7 · OET ISA 23:1 · OET ISA 23:6 · OET ISA 23:14 · OET ISA 52:5 · OET ISA 65:14

JER: OET JER 4:8 · OET JER 25:34 · OET JER 47:2 · OET JER 48:20 · OET JER 48:31 · OET JER 48:39 · OET JER 49:3 · OET JER 51:8

EZE: OET EZE 21:12 · OET EZE 30:2

HOS: OET HOS 7:14

JOL: OET JOL 1:5 · OET JOL 1:11 · OET JOL 1:13

AMO: OET AMO 8:3

MIC: OET MIC 1:8

ZEP: OET ZEP 1:11

ZEC: OET ZEC 11:2

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

ילל

Form 1

Sense 1: to wail, to howl