Beside
בִּלְעֲדֵיStrong’s H1107bilade (bil-a-de)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bilade is the Hebrew word usually translated “except”, “apart from me” and “except me”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.”
Meaning
- Apart from, except, without, besides
How it's translated
- except 4
- apart from me 3
- except me 3
- without 2
- and apart from you 1
- from except 1
- from without 1
- apart from 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 6
- Genesis 3
- Numbers 1
- Joshua 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 2 Kings 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:16And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
- Genesis 41:44And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 5:20But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
- Joshua 22:19Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD’s tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.
- 2 Samuel 22:32For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
- 2 Kings 18:25Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
Hebrew dictionary
בִּלְעֲדֵי bilade · beside
apart from, except, without, besides
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beside” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BESI'DE, preposition
[be and side, by the side.]
- At the side of a person or thing; near; as, sit down beside me, or beside the stream.
- Over and above; distinct from.“Beside all this, between us and you, there is a great gulf fixed” Luke 16:26
- On one side; out of the regular course or order; not according to, but not contrary.
- Out of; in a state deviating from; as, to put one beside his patience.
All definitions
- With the reciprocal pronoun, beside one's self is out of the wits or senses; out of the order of reason, or of rational beings.“Paul, thou are beside thyself” Acts 26:24
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.