Lexical Summary bal: not Original Word: בַּלTransliteration: bal Phonetic Spelling: (bal) Part of Speech: Adverb Short Definition: not Meaning: a failure, nothing, not at all, lest Strong's Concordance lest, neither, no, none that From balah; properly, a failure; by implication nothing; usually (adverb) not at all; also lest -- lest, neither, no, none (that...), not (any), nothing. see HEBREW balah Brown-Driver-Briggs H1077. bal בַּל69 adverb not (Phoenician id.: e.g. CISi. 165, 15 לכהן יכן בל shall not be for the priest; :3, 3 עתי בל = before my time) a poetic synonym of לֹא, of comparatively rare occurrence, Hosea 7:2; 9:16 (Qr) Isaiah 14:21; 35:9; 43:17; Proverbs 9:13; 14:7; 19:23; 22:29; 23:7, 35 (twice in verse); 24:23; 1 Chronicles 16:30 ( = Psalm 96:10), only besides, except in the passages cited, in other Psalms: often repeated in the same context, as Isaiah 26:10 (twice in verse); 26:11, 14 (twice in verse); 26:18 (twice in verse); 33:20 (twice in verse); 33:21, 23 (twice in verse); 33:24; 44:8-9, (3 t. in verse); Psalm 10:4; 10:6; 10:11; 10:15; 10:18; 16:2; 16:4 (twice in verse); 16:8; 17:3 (twice in verse); 17:5; 21:3; 21:8; 21:12; also used often with תִּמּוֺט יִמּוֺט, אֶמּוֺט, 10:6; 16:8; 21:8; 30:7; 46:6; 93:1; 96:10; 104:5; Proverbs 10:30; 12:3; Job 41:15. In Isaiah 40:24 it is probably that it acquires from the context the sense of hardly: yea, hardly are they planted, yea, hardly are they sown ..., when he even bloweth upon them, and they wither; compare לֹא 2 Kings 20:4. Joined anomalously with an infin., Psalm 32:9 אֵלֶיךָ קְרוֺב בַּל (else) there is not coming nigh thee (i.e. else they will not approach thee). |
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