Lexical Summary beliyyaal: worthlessness Original Word: בְּלִיַּעַלTransliteration: beliyyaal Phonetic Spelling: (bel-e-yah'-al) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: worthlessness Meaning: without profit, worthlessness, destruction, wickedness Strong's Concordance Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly men, wicked From bliy and ya'al; without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness (often in connection with 'iysh, 'ishshah, ben, etc.) -- Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked. see HEBREW bliy see HEBREW ya'al see HEBREW 'iysh see HEBREW 'ishshah see HEBREW ben Brown-Driver-Briggs H1100. beliyyaal בְּלִיַּ֫עַל27 noun [masculine] worthlessness (compound בְּלִי not, without and יַעַל worth, use, profit) — ׳בּ Deuteronomy 13:14 20t.; בְּלִיָּ֑עַל Psalm 101:3 5t.; — the quality of being useless, good for nothing. 1 abstract הבליעל אַנְשֵׁי (ה)בליעל, אִישׁ, worthless, good-for-nothing, base fellows 1 Samuel 25:25; 2 Samuel 16:7; 20:1; 1 Kings 21:13; Proverbs 16:27; = ׳בֶּןבֿ 1 Samuel 25:17, ב ׳בְּנֵי Deuteronomy 13:14; Judges 19:22; 20:13; 1 Samuel 2:12; 10:27; 1 Kings 21:10, 13; 2 Chronicles 13:7; ב ׳בַּת 1 Samuel 1:16 (drunken woman); ב ׳עֵד base witness Proverbs 19:28; ב ׳דְּבַר base, wicked thing Psalm 41:9 (yet compare 3 below), 101:3 (add probably also 1 Samuel 29:10, so ᵐ5 We Dr); ׳דָּבָרב֗֗֗ (elliptical and in apposition) Deuteronomy 15:9. 2 concrete elliptical of ב ׳אישׁ 2 Samuel 23:6; Job 34:18; וּבְלִיַּעַל רַע כָּלאִֿישׁ 1 Samuel 30:22; בְּלִיַּעַל אָדָם Proverbs 6:12. 3 ruin, destruction: so Psalm 41:9 according to De Che and others, but see above; ב ׳יֹעֵץ counsellor of ruin Nahum 1:11; ׳ב alone a man of ruin, destroyer 2:1; ב ׳נַחֲלֵי floods of destruction ("" שְׁאוֺל) 2 Samuel 22:5 = Psalm 18:5. |
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