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H3213יָלַלya.lal

to wailPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. Genesis: 0
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. Deuteronomy: 0
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. Psalms: 0
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 11
  24. 8
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 2
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 1
  29. 3
  30. 1
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 1
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. 1
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 2
  39. Malachi: 0

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30 occurrences in 28 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. Isaiah 13:6

    Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

    הֵילִ֕ילוּ hei.Li.lu “wail”

  2. Isaiah 14:31

    Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.

    הֵילִ֤ילִֽי hei.Li.li “wail”

  3. Isaiah 15:2

    The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.

    יְיֵלִ֔יל ye.ye.Lil “it is wailing”

  4. Isaiah 15:3

    In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.

    יְיֵלִ֖יל ye.ye.Lil “it is wailing”

  5. Isaiah 16:7

    For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.

    יְיֵלִ֥יל ye.ye.Lil “it will wail”יְיֵלִ֑יל ye.ye.Lil “it will wail”

  6. Isaiah 23:1

    The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.

    הֵילִ֣ילוּ׀ hei.Li.lu “wail”

  7. Isaiah 23:6

    Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.

    הֵילִ֖ילוּ hei.Li.lu “wail”

  8. Isaiah 23:14

    Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.

    הֵילִ֖ילוּ hei.Li.lu “wail”

  9. Isaiah 52:5

    Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.

    יְהֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ ye.hei.Li.lu “they wail”

  10. Isaiah 65:14

    My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.

    תְּיֵלִֽילוּ׃ te.ye.Li.lu “you will wail”

  11. Jeremiah 4:8

    For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

    וְהֵילִ֑ילוּ (הֵילִ֑ילוּ) hei.Li.lu “wail”

  12. Jeremiah 25:34

    Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males

    הֵילִ֨ילוּ hei.Li.lu “wail”

  13. Jeremiah 47:2

    This is what the Lord has said: See, waters are coming up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, overflowing the land and everything in it, the town and those who are living in it; and men will give a cry, and all the people of the land

    וְהֵילִ֕ל (הֵילִ֕ל) hei.Lil “he will wail”

  14. Jeremiah 48:20

    Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.

    הֵילִ֣ילוּ hei.li.li “wail”

  15. Jeremiah 48:31

    For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.

    אֲיֵלִ֔יל 'a.ye.Lil “I will wail”

  16. Jeremiah 48:39

    How is it broken down! how is Moab's back turned in shame! so Moab will be a cause of sport and of fear to everyone round about him.

    הֵילִ֔ילוּ hei.Li.lu “they will wail”

  17. Jeremiah 49:3

    Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers

    הֵילִ֨ילִי hei.Li.li “wail”

  18. Jeremiah 51:8

    Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.

    הֵילִ֣ילוּ hei.Li.lu “wail”

  19. Ezekiel 21:12

    Give loud cries and make sounds of grief, O son of man: for it has come on my people, it has come on all the rulers of Israel: fear of the sword has come on my people: for this cause give signs of grief.

    וְהֵילֵל֙ (הֵילֵל֙) hei.Lel “wail”

  20. Ezekiel 30:2

    Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day!

    הֵילִ֖ילוּ hei.Li.lu “wail”

  21. Hosea 7:14

    And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

    יְיֵלִ֖ילוּ ye.ye.Li.lu “they wail”

  22. Joel 1:5

    Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

    וְהֵילִ֖לוּ (הֵילִ֖לוּ) hei.Li.lu “wail”

  23. Joel 1:11

    The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

    הֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ hei.Li.lu “wail”

  24. Joel 1:13

    Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been

    הֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ hei.Li.lu “wail”

  25. Amos 8:3

    And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.

    וְהֵילִ֜ילוּ (הֵילִ֜ילוּ) hei.Li.lu “they will wail”