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H1115 בִּלְתִּי (biltîy) bil-tee'
Hebrew
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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

noun c · בלה

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

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UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

base

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