Exception
זוּלָהStrong’s H2108zulah (zu-lah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zulah is the Hebrew word usually translated “except”, “except you” and “besides me”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.”
Meaning
- A removal, a putting away
- Except, besides, with the exception of, with removal of
- Except that
How it's translated
- except 7
- except you 4
- besides me 3
- except it 1
- besides you 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- 1 Kings 2
- Joshua 1
- Ruth 1
- 1 Samuel 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 4:12And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
- Joshua 11:13But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
- Ruth 4:4And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
- 1 Samuel 21:9And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
- 2 Samuel 7:22Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- 1 Kings 3:18And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
Hebrew dictionary
זוּלָה zulah · exception
1) a removal, a putting away prep 2) except, besides, with the exception of, with removal of conj 3) except that
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “exception” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EXCEP'TION, noun
The act of excepting, or excluding from a number designated, or from a description; exclusion. All the representatives voted for the bill, with the exception of five. All the land is in tillage, with an exception of two acres.
- Exclusion from what is comprehended in a general rule or proposition.
- That which is excepted, excluded, or separated from others in a general description; the person or thing specified as distinct or not included.
- An objection; that which is or may be offered in opposition to a rule, proposition, statement or allegation; with to; sometimes with against.
- Objection with dislike; offense; slight anger or resentment; with at, to or against, and commonly used with take; as, to take exception at a severe remark; to take exception to what was said.
All definitions
- In law, the denial of what is alleged and considered as valid by the other party, either in point of law or in pleading; or an allegation against the sufficiency of an answer.
- A saving clause in a writing.
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.