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Lexicon :: Strong's H408 - 'al

Aa
אַל
Transliteration
'al
Pronunciation
al
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Part of Speech
adverb of negation
Root Word (Etymology)
A negative particle [akin to לֹא (H3808)]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 90

Strong’s Definitions

אַל ʼal, al; a negative particle (akin to H3808); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing:—nay, neither, + never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's H408 in the following manner: never (2x), nay (1x), neither (1x), no (1x), none (1x), nor (1x), not (1x), nothing (1x), rather than (1x), whither (1x), nothing worth (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's H408 in the following manner: never (2x), nay (1x), neither (1x), no (1x), none (1x), nor (1x), not (1x), nothing (1x), rather than (1x), whither (1x), nothing worth (1x).

  1. not, no, nor, neither, nothing (as wish or preference)

    1. do not, let not (with a verb)

    2. let there not be (with a verb understood)

    3. not, no (with substantive)

    4. nothing (as substantive)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַל ʼal, al; a negative particle (akin to H3808); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing:—nay, neither, + never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.
STRONGS H408: Abbreviations
II. אַל adverb of negation (so Phoenician e.g. CISi.3,4.5.8, Biblical Aramaic H409, Sabean (DHMZMG 1875, 596), and in the Ethiopic አልቦ፡ albo, is not), denying however, not objectively as a fact (like לֹא οὐ), but subjectively as a wish (like μή), expressing therefore a deprecation or prohibition:
a.
(a) with a verb, which is then always an imperfect (never an imperative), by preference in the cohortative or jussive mood, where this is in use, and may be of any person or number; Genesis 15:1 and often אַל־תִּירָא fear not! Genesis 22:12 יָֽדְךָ אַל־תִּשְׁלַח put not forth thy hand, Genesis 37:27 וְיָדֵנוּ אַל־תְּהִי־בוֺ and let not our hand be upon him, Genesis 21:16 אַל־אֶרְאֶה let me not look upon the death of the lad! Psalm 25:2 אַל־אֵבוֺשָׁה let me not be ashamed; with1st person plural (rare) 2 Samuel 13:25; Jeremiah 18:18; Jonah 1:14. In an imprecation: Genesis 49:4 אַל־תּוֺתַר have not thou the excellency! Psalm 109:12; Job 3:4, 6. Sometimes strengthened by נָא : Genesis 13:8; Genesis 18:3 and elsewhere.
(b) without a verb,
(α) 2 Samuel 1:21 let (there be) not dew & not rain upon you! Isaiah 62:6; Psalm 83:1.
(β) used absolutely, in deprecation Genesis 19:18; 2 Samuel 13:16 (see below אוֺדָה) 2 Kings 3:13; 2 Kings 4:16; 2 Kings 6:27 (see RVm: but possibly to be explained by Dr§ 152 iii; so Th Ke: hardly as Ew§ 355 b) Ruth 1:13 אַל בְּנֹתַי Nay, my daughters, compare Judges 19:23;
(γ) after a preceding imperative Amos 5:14; Joel 2:13; Proverbs 8:10, a jussive Proverbs 27:2, an infinitive absolute Proverbs 27:2.
(c) in poetry אַל sometimes expresses vividly the emotion or sympathy of the poet (see Dr§ 56-8); Isaiah 2:9 וְאַל־תִּשָּׂא לָהֶם and forgive them not! (with a touch of passion), Psalm 41:3; Proverbs 3:25; Job 5:22; Psalm 34:6 (but Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Ew Che here read וּפְנֵיכֶם, probably rightly); Psalm 50:3a may our God come וְאַל־ יֶ֫חֱשָרשׁ and not be silent! (the psalmist identifying himself with a spectator of the scene Psalm 50:2, Psalm 50:3b Psalm 50:3c) Psalm 121:3 (contrast Psalm 121:4 לֹא) Jeremiah 46:6 +.
b. once Proverbs 12:28 joined closely to a substantive (compare לֹא 2 b) to express with emphasis its negation: In the way of righteousness is life, and in the pathway therecf אַל־מָוֶת there is no-death! i.e. immortality.
c. once Job 24:25 used in poetry as a substantive, And bring my words לְאַל to nought! — N.B. 1 Samuel 27:10 הַיּוֺם אַל־פְּשַׁטְתֶּם אַל with the perfect is against all analogy; and either אֶל־מִי (with Greek Version of the LXX. Vulgate), or better אָן whither? (with Syriac Version Targum : see 1 Samuel 10:14) must be read.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

13:8; 15:1; 18:3; 19:18; 21:16; 22:12; 37:27; 49:4

Judges

19:23

Ruth

1:13

1 Samuel

10:14; 27:10

2 Samuel

1:21; 13:16; 13:25

2 Kings

3:13; 4:16; 6:27

Job

3:4; 3:6; 5:22; 24:25

Psalms

25:2; 34:6; 41:3; 50:2; 50:3; 50:3; 50:3; 83:1; 109:12; 121:3; 121:4

Proverbs

3:25; 8:10; 12:28; 27:2; 27:2

Isaiah

2:9; 62:6

Jeremiah

18:18; 46:6

Joel

2:13

Amos

5:14

Jonah

1:14

H408

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Strong's Number H408 matches the Hebrew אַל ('al),
which occurs 725 times in 572 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 10 / 12 (Isa 43:6–Jer 26:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:6 - “I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring My sons from afar
And My daughters from the ends of the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:18 - “Do not call to mind the former things,
Or ponder things of the past.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:2 - Thus says the LORD who made you
And formed you from the womb, who will help you,
‘Do not fear, O Jacob My servant;
And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:8 - ‘Do not tremble and do not be afraid;
Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it?
And you are My witnesses.
Is there any God besides Me,
Or is there any other Rock?
I know of none.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:7 - “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
A people in whose heart is My law;
Do not fear the reproach of man,
Nor H408 be dismayed at their revilings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:11 - Depart, depart, go out from there,
Touch nothing H408 unclean;
Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves,
You who carry the vessels of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:2 - “Enlarge the place of your tent;
[fn]Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not;
Lengthen your cords
And strengthen your pegs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:4 - “Fear not, for you will not be put to shame;
And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced;
But you will forget the shame of your youth,
And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3 - Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say,
“The LORD will surely separate me from His people.”
Nor H408 let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:1 - “Cry loudly, do not hold back;
Raise your voice like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their transgression
And to the house of Jacob their sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:6 - On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen;
All day and all night they will never keep silent.
You who remind the LORD, take no H408 rest for yourselves;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:7 - And give Him no H408 rest until He establishes
And makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:9 - Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD,
Nor remember iniquity forever;
Behold, look now, all of us are Your people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:5 - “Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me,
For I am holier than you!’
These are smoke in My [fn]nostrils,
A fire that burns all the day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:8 - Thus says the LORD,
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
And one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is [fn]benefit in it,’
So I will act on behalf of My servants
In order not to destroy [fn]all of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:7 - But the LORD said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
Because everywhere I send you, you shall go,
And all that I command you, you shall speak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:8 - “Do not be afraid of them,
For I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:17 - “Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3 - For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
“[fn]Break up your fallow ground,
And do not sow among thorns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:6 - “Lift up a standard toward Zion!
Seek refuge, do not stand still,
For I am bringing evil from the north,
And great destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:10 - “Go up through her vine rows and destroy,
But do not execute a complete destruction;
Strip away her branches,
For they are not the LORD’S.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25 - Do not go out into the field
And do not walk on the road,
For the enemy has a sword,
Terror is on every side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:4 - “Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, ‘[fn]This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - if you do not oppress the alien, the [fn]orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:16 - “As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4 - “Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
Because every brother deals [fn]craftily,
And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:23 - Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:2 - Thus says the LORD,
“Do not learn the way of the nations,
And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens
Although the nations are terrified by them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:5 - “Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not fear them,
For they can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:24 - Correct me, O LORD, but with justice;
Not with Your anger, or You will [fn]bring me to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:14 - “Therefore do not pray for this people, nor H408 lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:6 - “For even your brothers and the household of your father,
Even they have dealt treacherously with you,
Even they have cried aloud after you.
Do not believe them, although they may say nice things to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:15 - Listen and give heed, do not be haughty,
For the LORD has spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:9 - “Why are You like a man dismayed,
Like a mighty man who cannot save?
Yet You are in our midst, O LORD,
And we are called by Your name;
Do not forsake us!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:11 - So the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the welfare of this people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17 - “You will say this word to them,
‘Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow,
With a sorely infected wound.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:21 - Do not despise us, for Your own name’s sake;
Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory;
Remember and do not annul Your covenant with us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:15 - You who know, O LORD,
Remember me, take notice of me,
And take vengeance for me on my persecutors.
Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away;
Know that for Your sake I endure reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 - For thus says the LORD, “Do not enter a house of [fn]mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares the LORD, “My lovingkindness and compassion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:17 - Do not be a terror to me;
You are my refuge in the day of disaster.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:18 - Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame;
Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed.
Bring on them a day of disaster,
And crush them with twofold destruction!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:21 - ‘Thus says the LORD, “Take heed for yourselves, and do not carry any load on the sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 - Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no H408 heed to any of his words.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23 - Yet You, O LORD, know
All their [fn]deadly designs against me;
Do not [fn]forgive their iniquity
Or blot out their sin from Your sight.
But may they be [fn]overthrown before You;
Deal with them in the time of Your anger!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:14 - Cursed be the day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - ‘Thus says the LORD, “Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:10 - Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him,
But weep continually for the one who goes away;
For he will never return
Or see his native land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:16 - Thus says the LORD of hosts,
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.
They are leading you into futility;
They speak a vision of their own [fn]imagination,
Not from the mouth of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - and do not go after other gods to [fn]serve them and to [fn]worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:2 - “Thus says the LORD, ‘Stand in the court of the LORD’S house, and speak to all the cities of Judah who have come to worship in the LORD’S house all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not omit a word!

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