בִּלְתִּי bilti

Hebrew word for “lest” · Strong’s H1115 · used 112 times in 107 verses

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Meaning

subst; 1) not, except;

How it is translated

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

• not 97
• except 14
• because not 1

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 20 (4), Joshua 11 (3), 2 Samuel 14 (3), Jeremiah 17 (3), Jeremiah 35 (3), Genesis 43 (2), Exodus 8 (2), Numbers 32 (2), Deuteronomy 17 (2), Joshua 23 (2)

Forms

• לבלתי 78
• בלתי 23
• ולבלתי 8
• מבלתי 2
• בלתך 1

Words used with it

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

• אִם im “if” 16
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 16
• שָׁאַר shaar “to remain” 9
• הֶם hem “them” 14
• שָׂרִיד sarid “survivor” 6
• עַד ad “till” 12
• מַעַן maan “because” 8
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 9
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 9
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 12
• רַע ra “bad” 9
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 10

Key verses

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

• Deuteronomy 17:20 — That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may…
• 1 Samuel 2:2 — There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
• 2 Samuel 14:14 — For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means,…
• 2 Kings 17:15 — And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed…
• 2 Kings 23:10 — And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
• 1 Chronicles 4:10 — And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou…
• Job 42:8 — Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall…
• Jeremiah 17:27 — But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then…
• Jeremiah 23:14 — I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none…
• Jeremiah 32:40 — And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they…
• Ezekiel 13:22 — Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return…
• Ezekiel 20:9 — But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in…

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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.