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Lexicon :: Strong's H1097 - bᵊlî

Aa
בְּלִי
Transliteration
bᵊlî
Pronunciation
bel-ee'
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Part of Speech
adverb of negation, substantive
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 246e

Strong’s Definitions

בְּלִי bᵉlîy, bel-ee'; from H1086; properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.:—corruption, ig(norantly), for lack of, where no...is, so that no, none, not, un(awares), without.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's H1097 in the following manner: not, without, un..., lack of, so that no, corruption.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's H1097 in the following manner: not, without, un..., lack of, so that no, corruption.
substantive

  1. wearing out

    adverb of negation

  2. without, no, not

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בְּלִי bᵉlîy, bel-ee'; from H1086; properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.:—corruption, ig(norantly), for lack of, where no...is, so that no, none, not, un(awares), without.
STRONGS H1097: Abbreviations
† בְּלִי substantive wearing out (بِلًى, oxlb wearing out of a garment), hence
1. figurative destruction Isaiah 38:17 שַׁחַת בְּלִי pit of destruction (of She'ôl).
2. defect, failure, hence adverb of negation (compare H657 אֶפֶס), chiefly poetic for לֹא, אֵין: —
a. with finite verb rare and only once in prose, Genesis 31:20 (E) עַל־בְּלִי הִגִּיד לוֺ because he told him not, Isaiah 14:6; Isaiah 32:10; Hosea 8:7; Hosea 9:16 (Kt) Job 41:18.
b. used to negative an adjective or participle 2 Samuel 1:21 בְּלִי מָשִׁיחַ not anointed, Psalm 19:4; Hosea 7:8: more frequently, especially in Job, joined with a substantive in sense of without, Job 8:11 will the reed-grass grow בְּלִי־מָ֑יִם without water? Job 24:10 they go about naked בְּלִי לְבוּשׁ without clothing, Job 31:39; Job 33:9; Job 34:6; Job 38:2 words בְּלִי־דַעַת without knowledge, Job 39:16; Job 42:3; Psalm 59:5 בְּלִי־עָוֺן יְרוּצוּן without (my) iniquity they run (against me), compare Psalm 59:4 לֹא, Psalm 63:2 a dry land בְּלִי מָ֑יִם without water, Isaiah 28:8; Job 30:8 בְּנֵי בְלִי־שֵׁם children of (men of) no name.
With prepositions
a. † בִּבְלִי, in בִּבְלִי דַעַת Deuteronomy 4:42; Deuteronomy 19:4; Joshua 20:3, 5 D (= unawares: all in D's law of homicide); without knowledge Job 35:16; Job 36:12.
b. † לִבְלִי in a state of (see below לְ) no..., i.e. without,Isaiah 5:14 לִבְלִי־חֹק regardless of, without measure, Job 38:41; Job 41:25 that is made לִבְלִי־חֵת (to be) in a state of no fear, i.e. to be fearless.
c. † מִבְּלִי
(α) from want of, followed by a substantive or infinitive, מִן expressing causation, Deuteronomy 9:28 מִבְּלִי יְכֹלֶת י׳ on account of Jehovah's not being able... (in Numbers 14:16 מִבִּלְתִּי), Deuteronomy 28:55 (Ew238d; but also RSJPh xvi. 72), Isaiah 5:13 for want of knowledge, Hosea 4:6; Ezekiel 34:5; Lamentations 1:4 מִבְּלִי בָּאֵי מוֺעֵד for lack of comers to the stated feast. Followed by a pleonastic אֵין in the phrase ⬩⬩⬩הֲמִבְּלִי אֵין is it on account of there being no...? (literally is it from the deficiency of no...? compare twflD oflb Nem in Syriac; PS528), Exodus 14:11; 2 Kings 1:3, 6, 16.
(β) so that there is no... (literally away from there being no..., מִן expressing negation, and בְּלִי being pleonastic, as in מֵאֵין, see below H369 אַיִן 6d β); Jeremiah 2:15 its cities are burnt מִבְּלִי יוֺשֵׁב so that there is no inhabitant, Jeremiah 9:9-11 Ezekiel 14:15; Zephaniah 3:6. Once as a conjunction מִבְּלִי אֲשֶׁר, with pleonastic לֹא, so that not... Ecclesiastes 3:11. In Job מִבְּלִי is used more freely = without, the connection with a preceding verb being no longer distinctly felt: Job 4:20 without any heeding, they perish for ever, Job 6:6; Job 24:7, 8; probably also Job 4:11; Job 31:19 (though here the sense (α) would be admissible).
(γ) in Job 18:15 תִּשְׁכּוֺן בְּאָהֳלוֺ מִבְּלִי־לוֺ, מִן is probably partitive (so Hi): there shall dwell in his tent what is naught of his: Ew§ 323a De less probably even naught, compare below אַיִן 6d γ; Ges 'terror (supplied from Job 18:14) shall dwell in his tent so that it is no more his.'
d. † עַד־בְּלִי till there be no... Psalm 72:7; Malachi 3:10.

† בְּלִימָה noun [masculine] nothingness (from בְּלִי & מָה, literally not-aught) Job 26:7 who hangeth the earth on בְּ׳.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:20

Exodus

14:11

Numbers

14:16

Deuteronomy

4:42; 9:28; 19:4; 28:55

Joshua

20:3; 20:5

2 Samuel

1:21

2 Kings

1:3; 1:6; 1:16

Job

4:11; 4:20; 6:6; 8:11; 18:14; 18:15; 24:7; 24:8; 24:10; 26:7; 30:8; 31:19; 31:39; 33:9; 34:6; 35:16; 36:12; 38:2; 38:41; 39:16; 41:18; 41:25; 42:3

Psalms

19:4; 59:4; 59:5; 63:2; 72:7

Ecclesiastes

3:11

Isaiah

5:13; 5:14; 14:6; 28:8; 32:10; 38:17

Jeremiah

2:15; 9:9; 9:10; 9:11

Lamentations

1:4

Ezekiel

14:15; 34:5

Hosea

4:6; 7:8; 8:7; 9:16

Zephaniah

3:6

Malachi

3:10

H1097

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Strong's Number H1097 matches the Hebrew בְּלִי (bᵊlî),
which occurs 58 times in 57 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 31:20–Eze 14:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - And Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:5 - And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21 - O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:3 - But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Go now, and, meeting the men sent by the king of Samaria, say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you are going to get directions from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - And they said to him, On our way we had a meeting with a man who said, Go back to the king who sent you and say to him, The Lord says, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? For this reason, you will not come down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:11 - The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:20 - Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6 - Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:11 - Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:15 - In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:7 - They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8 - They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:10 - Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:8 - They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:19 - If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:39 - If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:9 - I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:6 - Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:16 - And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:12 - But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:2 - Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:41 - Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:16 - She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:26 - The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:33 - On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:3 - Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:3 - There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:4 - For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:7 - In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:11 - He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:14 - For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6 - He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8 - For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:10 - In not much more than a year, you, who are not looking for evil, will be troubled: for the produce of the vine-gardens will be cut off, and there will be no getting in of the grapes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:17 - See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 - Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 - The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:15 - Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:

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