H1097Negative58 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Deuteronomy 4:42בִּבְלִי
to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
- 2 Kings 1:3הַמִבְּלִי
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?’
- Job 4:11מִבְּלִי
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
- Psalm 19:3בְּלִי
Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,
- Isaiah 5:13מִבְּלִי
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
- Jeremiah 2:15מִבְּלִי
The young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.