HebrewH1097Neg

בְּלִי

be.li

49Occurrences
H1097Strong's #
NegPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.

from H1086 (בָּלָה);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
subst 1) wearing out adv of negation 2) without, no, not

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Neg

Morphology Code

H:Neg

Full Description

H:Neg

Occurrences

בְּלִי appears 49 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Job
20
Isaiah
6
Deuteronomy
4
2 Kings
3
Hosea
3
Ezk
2
Joshua
2
2 Samuel
1

Key Passages

2 Kings 1:3BSB

But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’

Exodus 14:11BSB

They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

Isaiah 32:10BSB

In a little more than a year you will tremble,O secure ones.For the grape harvest will failand the fruit harvest will not arrive.

Job 26:7BSB

He stretches out the north over empty space;He hangs the earth upon nothing.

Job 38:41BSB

Who provides food for the ravenwhen its young cry out to Godas they wander about for lack of food?

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.