Not
בַּלStrong’s H1077bal
Appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bal is the Hebrew word usually translated “not”. It appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament.
“Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.”
Meaning
- Not, hardly, else
How it's translated
- not 60
- and not 9
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 28
- Isaiah 14
- Proverbs 9
- Hosea 2
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Job 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 41:23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
- Psalms 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
- Psalms 10:6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
- Psalms 10:11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
- Psalms 10:15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
- Psalms 10:18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
All 55 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בַּל bal · not
not, hardly, else
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “not” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NOT, adverb
[See Naught.]
- A word that expreses negation, denial or refusal; as, he will no go; will you remain? I will not In the first member of a sentence, it may be followed by nor or neither; as not for a price nor reward; I was not in sfety, neither had I rest.
- With the substantive verb in the following phrase, it denies being, or denotes extinction of existence.“Thine eyes are open upon me, and I am not” Job 14:3
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.