Strong's Definition
as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle
KJV Usage: else, except, fail, (father-)less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare 370
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אַ֫יִן (a.yin) — nothing. 1) nothing, not, nought n 1a) nothing, nought neg 1b) not 1c) to have not (of possession) adv 1d) without w/prep 1e) for lack of
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
inter
Spatial Referents
Collocation: מֵאַיִן
from where? = referent to an unknown location; ► normally used with the purpose of finding out from which location a person or object originates; ≈ sometimes used in rhetorical questions expressing one's conviction that that location does not exist
GEN 29:4 · GEN 42:7 · NUM 11:13 · JOS 2:4 · JOS 9:8 · JDG 17:9 · JDG 19:17 · 2KI 5:25 · 2KI 6:27 · 2KI 20:14 · JOB 1:7 · JOB 28:12 · JOB 28:20 · PSA 121:1 · ISA 39:3 · JON 1:8 · NAM 3:7
1 JOB 35:15 MT פָּקַד, but should probably be read as פֹּקֵד 2 LAM 5:3 MT-K אין | MT-Q וְאֵין 3 LAM 5:7 MT-K אינם | MT-Q וְאֵינָם 4 2KI 5:25 MT-Q | MT-K מֵאָן
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
אַ֫יִן, אָ֑֫יִן cstr. אֵין subst. prop. nothing, nought to nothing, as nothing
cstr. אֵין, very freq. as particle of negation, is not, are not, was not, were not
אֵין לְ׳, with subst., or pron., there is (was) not to … = … have, has, had, etc. not
in circumst. clauses
with inf. and ל׳, it is not to …
with prefixes
base