Strong's Definition
from 1086; properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
KJV Usage: corruption, ig(norantly), for lack of, where no...is, so that no, none, not, un(awares), without
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בְּלִי (be.li) — without. subst 1) wearing out adv of negation 2) without, no, not
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · בלה
Negators
not, without = particle marking a proposition as not true
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Non-Space
Collocation: בְּלִי־מָה
nothing literally: without what; hence: = state in which nothing exists in a certain location
1 HOS 9:16 MT-K בלי | MT-Q בַל
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
בְּלִי subst. wearing out, hence fig. destruction
defect, failure, hence adv. of negation
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