STRONGS NUMBER H1077


Word Summary
bal: not
Original Word: בַּל
Transliteration: 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 לֹא2 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).