H1115 - בִּלְתִּי (biltîy)

H1115 בִּלְתִּי (biltîy) bil-tee'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

constructive feminine of 1086 (equivalent to 1097); properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until, etc.

KJV Usage: because un(satiable), beside, but, + continual, except, from, lest, neither, no more, none, not, nothing, save, that no, without

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בִּלְתִּי (bil.ti) — lest. subst 1) not, except adv 2) not 3) except (after preceding negation) conj 4) except (after an implied or expressed negation) with prep 5) so as not, in order not 6) an account of not, because...not 7) until not

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

בִּלְתִּי (H1115) — בֵּלֶת

noun c · בלה

Negators

not, without = particle marking a proposition as not true

GEN 3:11 · GEN 4:15 · GEN 19:21 · GEN 38:9 · EXO 8:18 · EXO 8:25 · EXO 9:17 · EXO 20:20 · LEV 18:30 · LEV 20:4 · LEV 26:15 · NUM 9:7 · NUM 14:16 · NUM 21:35 · NUM 32:9 · DEU 3:3 · DEU 4:21 · DEU 4:21 · DEU 8:11 · DEU 12:23 · DEU 17:12 · DEU 17:20 · DEU 17:20 · JOS 5:6 · JOS 8:22 · JOS 10:33 · JOS 11:8 · JOS 11:20 · JOS 22:25 · JOS 23:6 · JOS 23:7 · JDG 2:23 · JDG 8:1 · JDG 21:7 · RUT 1:13 · RUT 2:9 · RUT 3:10 · 1SA 20:26 · 2SA 14:7 · 2SA 14:13 · 2SA 14:14 · 1KI 6:6 · 1KI 11:10 · 1KI 15:17 · 2KI 10:11 · 2KI 12:9 · 2KI 12:9 · 2KI 17:15 · 2KI 23:10 · 1CH 4:10 · 2CH 16:1 · JOB 14:12 · JOB 42:8 · ISA 10:4 · ISA 14:6 · ISA 44:10 · ISA 48:9 · ISA 65:8 · JER 7:8 · JER 16:12 · JER 17:23 · JER 17:23 · JER 17:24 · JER 17:24 · JER 17:27 · JER 18:10 · JER 19:15 · JER 23:14 · JER 26:24 · JER 27:18 · JER 32:40 · JER 33:20 · JER 34:9 · JER 34:10 · JER 35:8 · JER 35:9 · JER 35:14 · JER 36:25 · JER 38:26 · JER 42:13 · JER 44:5 · JER 44:7 · JER 51:62 · EZK 3:21 · EZK 13:3 · EZK 13:22 · EZK 16:28 · EZK 17:14 · EZK 20:9 · EZK 20:14 · EZK 20:15 · EZK 20:22 · EZK 22:30 · EZK 24:8 · EZK 29:15 · EZK 33:15 · EZK 46:20 · DAN 9:11 · DAN 11:18

Restrictors

except, unless, only = particle marking a constituent or part of a constituent as the only condition for the entire proposition to be true

GEN 21:26 · GEN 47:18 · EXO 22:19 · NUM 11:6 · NUM 32:12 · JOS 11:19 · JDG 7:14 · 1SA 2:2 · HOS 13:4

Stipulators

except, except if, unless = particle marking a proposition as the only condition for another proposition to be true

GEN 43:3 · GEN 43:5 · ISA 10:4 · AMO 3:3 · AMO 3:4

¹ ISA 10:4 RSV NIV ESV AYBC "Nothing ... but" = [1c] | NJB "to avoid" NRSV "so as not" REB "so that ... not" = [1a] ² DAN 11:18 MT HOTTP-B לֹו בִּלְתִּי NJB | RSV NRSV ESV GNT "indeed" NJPS "nay" REB "thus" | NIV AYBC omit

Enio R. Mueller

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בֵ֫לֶת subst. prop. failure, hence used as particle of negation, not, except adv. not

after a preceding negation, not = except

conj. (likewise after a neg., expressed or implied)

With preps.

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