בְּלִי beli

Hebrew word for “without” · Strong’s H1097 · used 58 times in 57 verses

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Meaning

subst; 1) wearing out; adv of negation; 2) without, no, not

How it is translated

Glosses given for beli in context, with how often each is used:

• not 29
• because not 21
• ¿ because not 3
• no 1
• ¿ becasue not 1
• like not 1
• which not 1
• destruction 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 1 (3), Job 24 (3), Jeremiah 9 (3), Joshua 20 (2), Job 4 (2), Job 31 (2), Job 38 (2), Job 41 (2), Isaiah 5 (2), Genesis 31 (1)

Forms

• בלי 24
• מבלי 20
• בבלי 5
• המבלי 4
• לבלי 3
• ומבלי 1
• כבלי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with beli more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• דַּעַת daat “knowledge” 10
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 10
• בַּעַל זְבוּב baal zevuv “Baal-zebub” 3
• רָצַח ratsach “to murder” 4
• שָׁם sham “there” 7
• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 5
• עֶקְרוֹן eqron “Ekron” 3
• תְּמוֹל temol “yesterday” 3
• שִׁלְשֹׁם shilshom “three days ago” 3
• יָצַת yatsat “to kindle” 3
• לְבוּשׁ levush “clothing” 3
• אָבַד avad “to perish” 4

Key verses

The verses using beli that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Psalms 63:1 — [A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for…
• Psalms 72:7 — In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
• Isaiah 5:13 — Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
• Isaiah 5:14 — Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall…
• Isaiah 38:17 — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy…
• Jeremiah 2:15 — The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
• Jeremiah 9:10 — For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can…
• Jeremiah 9:11 — And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
• Lamentations 1:4 — The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in…
• Hosea 4:6 — My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou…
• Hosea 8:7 — For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow…
• Malachi 3:10 — Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.