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אָלָה

a.lah

to wail

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Strong’s H421Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

wail1

In the text

Joel 1:8אֱלִי
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[אָלָה] vb. wail

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.