אֲבָל

a.val

truly

Strong’s H61Adverb11 times in the Hebrew Bible

but7

indeed4

In the text

Genesis 17:19אֲבָל
But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
2 Samuel 14:5אֲבָל
“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
1 Kings 1:43אֲבָל
“Not at all,” Jonathan replied. “Our lord King David has made Solomon king.
2 Kings 4:14אֲבָל
So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
2 Chronicles 1:4אֲבָל
Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
Daniel 10:7אֲבָל
Only I, Daniel, saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but a great terror fell upon them, and they ran and hid themselves.

אֲבָל adv.

1. in older Heb. with an assertive force, verily, of a truth

2. in late Heb. as a decided adversative, howbeit, but

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.