Joel 1:8
Strong's Lexicon
Wail
אֱלִ֕י (’ĕ·lî)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 421: 1) (Qal) to lament, wail

like a virgin
כִּבְתוּלָ֥ה (kiḇ·ṯū·lāh)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1330: 1) virgin

dressed
חֲגֻֽרַת־ (ḥă·ḡu·raṯ-)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2296: 1) to gird, gird on, gird oneself, put on a belt 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to gird 1a2) to gird on, bind on 1a3) to gird oneself

in sackcloth,
שַׂ֖ק (śaq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8242: 1) mesh, sackcloth, sack, sacking 1a) sack (for grain) 1b) sackcloth 1b1) worn in mourning or humiliation 1b2) same material spread out to lie on

grieving for
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: prep 1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against 1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards 1b) above, beyond, over (of excess) 1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence) 1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition) 1e) over (of suspension or extension) 1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity) 1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion) 1h) to (as a dative) conj 2) because that, because, notwithstanding, although

the husband
בַּ֥עַל (ba·‘al)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1167: 1) owner, husband, lord 1a) owner 1b) a husband 1c) citizens, inhabitants 1d) rulers, lords 1e) (noun of relationship used to characterise-ie, master of dreams) 1f) lord (used of foreign gods)

of her youth.
נְעוּרֶֽיהָ׃ (nə·‘ū·re·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5271: 1) youth, early life

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

Young's Literal Translation
Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.

New American Standard Bible
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.

King James Bible
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.

New Living Translation
Weep like a bride dressed in black, mourning the death of her husband.

English Standard Version
Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

New American Standard Bible
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.

King James Bible
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.

International Standard Version
"Grieve like a virgin, who, dressed in her mourner's clothes, cries out in memory of the man she was going to marry.

NET Bible
Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.

American Standard Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

English Revised Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Young's Literal Translation
Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.
















Cross References
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Joel 1:1
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

Joel 1:7
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

Joel 1:6
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

Joel 1:5
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

Joel 1:9
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

Joel 1:10
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

Joel 1:11
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
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