בְּלִי
be.li
“without”
Definition
properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
from H1086 (בָּלָה);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Neg
H:Neg
H:Neg
Occurrences
בְּלִי appears 49 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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?’
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?
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.
He stretches out the north over empty space;He hangs the earth upon nothing.
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.