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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 8 / 12 (Pro 3:29–Pro 25:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 - Devise not H408 evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:30 - Strive not H408 with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:31 - Envy thou not H408 the oppressor, and H408 choose none H408 of his ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:2 - For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not H408 my law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:5 - Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; H408 neither H408 decline from the words of my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:6 - Forsake her not, H408 and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13 - Take fast hold of instruction; let her not H408 go: keep her; for she is thy life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:14 - Enter not H408 into the path of the wicked, and H408 go not H408 in the way of evil men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:15 - Avoid it, pass not H408 by it, turn from it, and pass away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:21 - Let them not H408 depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:27 - Turn not H408 to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:7 - Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and H408 depart not H408 from the words of my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:8 - Remove thy way far from her, and H408 come not H408 nigh the door of her house:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:4 - Give not H408 sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:20 - My son, keep thy father's commandment, and H408 forsake not H408 the law of thy mother:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:25 - Lust not H408 after her beauty in thine heart; neither H408 let her take thee with her eyelids.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25 - Let not H408 thine heart decline to her ways, go not H408 astray in her paths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:10 - Receive my instruction, and not H408 silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:33 - Hear instruction, and be wise, and H408 refuse it not. H408

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:8 - Reprove not H408 a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:28 - In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no H408 death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:12 - Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than H408 a fool in his folly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:18 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not H408 thy soul spare for his crying.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:13 - Love not H408 sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:22 - Say not H408 thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:22 - Rob not H408 the poor, because he is poor: neither H408 oppress the afflicted in the gate:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:24 - Make no H408 friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:26 - Be not H408 thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:28 - Remove not H408 the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:3 - Be not H408 desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:4 - Labour not H408 to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:6 - Eat thou not H408 the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither H408 desire thou his dainty meats:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:9 - Speak not H408 in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:10 - Remove not H408 the old landmark; and enter not H408 into the fields of the fatherless:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13 - Withhold not H408 correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:17 - Let not H408 thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:20 - Be not H408 among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:22 - Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and H408 despise not H408 thy mother when she is old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:23 - Buy the truth, and H408 sell it not; H408 also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31 - Look not H408 thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:1 - Be not H408 thou envious against evil men, neither H408 desire to be with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:15 - Lay not H408 wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not H408 his resting place:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:17 - Rejoice not H408 when thine enemy falleth, and let not H408 thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:19 - Fret not H408 thyself because of evil men, neither H408 be thou envious at the wicked;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:21 - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not H408 with them that are given to change:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:28 - Be not H408 a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:29 - Say not, H408 I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:6 - Put not H408 forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not H408 in the place of great men:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:8 - Go not H408 forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:9 - Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not H408 a secret to another:

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