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Hebrew cond · H1115

בִּלְתִּי

biltibil-tee'

lest

112 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: biltîy

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1115is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 21 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 29
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1115

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.

The King James renders it: because un(satiable), beside, but, [phrase] continual, except, from, lest, neither, no more, none, not, nothing, save, that no, without.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

bilti is rendered "lest". It stands 112 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.

  • Twenty-five of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 3:11“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-nine different ways.

The first use

“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

Genesis 3:11לְבִלְתִּ֥י

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • to not78
  • except12
  • not9
  • and to not8
  • except me1
  • except you1
  • from because not1
  • from not1
  • of not1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

בִּלְעֲדֵיbiladebesideUses17

All 112, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

29 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • לְבִלְתִּ֖י19
  • לְבִלְתִּ֥י15
  • בִּלְתִּ֥י12
  • לְבִלְתִּ֤י8
  • לְבִלְתִּ֛י6
  • לְבִלְתִּ֣י6
  • בִּלְתִּ֖י5
  • לְבִלְתִּי־5
  • לְבִלְתִּ֨י4
  • וּלְבִלְתִּ֛י3
  • לְבִלְתִּי֙3
  • לְבִלְתִּ֧י3

and 17 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular70HR/Ncbsa
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular17HNcbsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)10HR/Ncbsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular7HC/R/Ncbsa
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HNcbsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncbsc
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcbsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcbsc/Sp2ms

Genesis

eight uses
  • “Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

    Genesis 3:11

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • “Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.

    Genesis 4:15

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • “Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.

    Genesis 19:21

    • לְבִלְתִּ֛יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to not
  • Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

    Genesis 21:26

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: except
  • But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

    Genesis 38:9

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • But Judah replied, “The man solemnly warned us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’

    Genesis 43:3

    • בִּלְתִּ֖יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: except
  • But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’”

    Genesis 43:5

    • בִּלְתִּ֖יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: except
  • When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

    Genesis 47:18

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: except

Exodus

five uses
  • But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I, the LORD, am in the land.

    Exodus 8:22

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • “As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”

    Exodus 8:29

    • לְבִלְתִּי֙leviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.

    Exodus 9:17

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to not
  • “Do not be afraid,” Moses replied. “For God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be before you, to keep you from sinning.”

    Exodus 20:20

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.

    Exodus 22:20

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: except

Leviticus

three uses
  • You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”

    Leviticus 18:30

    • לְבִלְתִּ֨יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,

    Leviticus 20:4

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

    Leviticus 26:15

    • לְבִלְתִּ֤יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

Numbers

six uses
  • and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”

    Numbers 9:7

    • לְבִלְתִּ֨יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

    Numbers 11:6

    • בִּלְתִּ֖יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: except
  • ‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

    Numbers 14:16

    • מִבִּלְתִּ֞יmibiltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from because not
  • So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of his land.

    Numbers 21:35

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: not
  • For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.

    Numbers 32:9

    • לְבִלְתִּי־levilti-preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.’

    Numbers 32:12

    • בִּלְתִּ֞יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: except

Deuteronomy

eight uses
  • So the LORD our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left.

    Deuteronomy 3:3

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: not
  • The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

    Deuteronomy 4:21

    • לְבִלְתִּ֤יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to not
    • וּלְבִלְתִּי־ulevilti-conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to not
  • Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.

    Deuteronomy 8:11

    • לְבִלְתִּ֨יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to not
  • Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

    Deuteronomy 12:23

    • לְבִלְתִּי֙leviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

    Deuteronomy 17:12

    • לְבִלְתִּ֨יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to not
  • Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.

    Deuteronomy 17:20

    • לְבִלְתִּ֤יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to not
    • וּלְבִלְתִּ֛יulevilticonjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and to not

Joshua

nine uses
  • For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    Joshua 5:6

    • לְבִלְתִּ֞יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces on both sides. So Israel struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained.

    Joshua 8:22

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: not
  • At that time Horam king of Gezer went to help Lachish, but Joshua struck him down along with his people, leaving no survivors.

    Joshua 10:33

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: not
  • and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.

    Joshua 11:8

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: not
  • No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.

    Joshua 11:19

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: except
  • For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    Joshua 11:20

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the LORD!’ So your descendants could cause ours to stop fearing the LORD.

    Joshua 22:25

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.

    Joshua 23:6

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.

    Joshua 23:7

    • לְבִלְתִּי־levilti-preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

Judges

four uses
  • That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.

    Judges 2:23

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to not
  • His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”

    Judges 7:14

    • בִּלְתִּ֗יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: except
  • Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.

    Judges 8:1

    • לְבִלְתִּי֙leviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”

    Judges 21:7

    • לְבִלְתִּ֛יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

Ruth

three uses
  • would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

    Ruth 1:13

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”

    Ruth 2:9

    • לְבִלְתִּ֣יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to not
  • Then Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.

    Ruth 3:10

    • לְבִלְתִּי־levilti-preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

1 Samuel

two uses
  • There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.

    1 Samuel 2:2

    • בִּלְתֶּ֑ךָbiltekhanoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: except you
  • Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

    1 Samuel 20:26

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: not

2 Samuel

three uses
  • Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”

    2 Samuel 14:7

    • לְבִלְתִּ֧יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

    2 Samuel 14:13

    • לְבִלְתִּ֛יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

    2 Samuel 14:14

    • לְבִלְתִּ֛יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

1 Kings

three uses
  • The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.

    1 Kings 6:6

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.

    1 Kings 11:10

    • לְבִ֨לְתִּי־levilti-preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Baasha king of Israel went to war against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

    1 Kings 15:17

    • לְבִלְתִּ֗יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

2 Kings

five uses
  • So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor.

    2 Kings 10:11

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: not
  • So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

    2 Kings 12:8

    • לְבִלְתִּ֤יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
    • וּלְבִלְתִּ֥יulevilticonjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to not
  • They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

    2 Kings 17:15

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.

    2 Kings 23:10

    • לְבִלְתִּ֗יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

1 Chronicles

one use
  • And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.

    1 Chronicles 4:10

    • לְבִלְתִּ֣יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

2 Chronicles

one use
  • In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

    2 Chronicles 16:1

    • לְבִלְתִּ֗יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

Job

two uses
  • so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

    Job 14:12

    • בִּלְתִּ֣יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: not
  • So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

    Job 42:8

    • לְבִלְתִּ֞יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

Isaiah

five uses
  • Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

    Isaiah 10:4

    • בִּלְתִּ֤יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: except
  • It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

    Isaiah 14:6

    • בִּלְתִּ֣יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of not
  • Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

    Isaiah 44:10

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.

    Isaiah 48:9

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.

    Isaiah 65:8

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

Jeremiah

twenty-five uses
  • But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

    Jeremiah 7:8

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

    Jeremiah 16:12

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

    Jeremiah 17:23

    • לְבִלְתִּ֣יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
    • וּלְבִלְתִּ֖יulevilticonjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to not
  • If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,

    Jeremiah 17:24

    • לְבִלְתִּ֣י׀leviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”

    Jeremiah 17:27

    • וּלְבִלְתִּ֣י׀ulevilticonjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to not
  • and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.

    Jeremiah 18:10

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”

    Jeremiah 19:15

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”

    Jeremiah 23:14

    • לְבִ֨לְתִּי־levilti-preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

    Jeremiah 26:24

    • לְבִלְתִּ֛יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not be taken to Babylon.

    Jeremiah 27:18

    • לְבִלְתִּי־levilti-preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

    Jeremiah 32:40

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

    Jeremiah 33:20

    • וּלְבִלְתִּ֛יulevilticonjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to not
  • that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.

    Jeremiah 34:9

    • לְבִלְתִּ֧יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,

    Jeremiah 34:10

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.

    Jeremiah 35:8

    • לְבִלְתִּ֤יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

    Jeremiah 35:9

    • וּלְבִלְתִּ֛יulevilticonjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to not
  • The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!

    Jeremiah 35:14

    • לְבִלְתִּ֣יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

    Jeremiah 36:25

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”

    Jeremiah 38:26

    • לְבִלְתִּ֧יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to not
  • But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and you thus disobey the voice of the LORD your God,

    Jeremiah 42:13

    • לְבִלְתִּ֣יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.

    Jeremiah 44:5

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

    Jeremiah 44:7

    • לְבִלְתִּ֛יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’

    Jeremiah 51:62

    • לְבִלְתִּ֤יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

Ezekiel

fourteen uses
  • But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”

    Ezekiel 3:21

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing.

    Ezekiel 13:3

    • וּלְבִלְתִּ֥יulevilticonjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to not
  • Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,

    Ezekiel 13:22

    • לְבִלְתִּי־levilti-preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.

    Ezekiel 16:28

    • מִבִּלְתִּ֖יmibiltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from not
  • so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant.

    Ezekiel 17:14

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

    Ezekiel 20:9

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

    Ezekiel 20:14

    • לְבִלְתִּ֤יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—

    Ezekiel 20:15

    • לְבִלְתִּי֩leviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

    Ezekiel 20:22

    • לְבִלְתִּ֤יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

    Ezekiel 22:30

    • לְבִלְתִּ֣יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’

    Ezekiel 24:8

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the nations. For I will diminish Egypt so that it will never again rule over the nations.

    Ezekiel 29:15

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.

    Ezekiel 33:15

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”

    Ezekiel 46:20

    • לְבִלְתִּ֥יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not

Daniel

two uses
  • All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.

    Daniel 9:11

    • לְבִלְתִּ֖יleviltipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: to not
  • Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many of them. But a commander will put an end to his reproach and will turn it back upon him.

    Daniel 11:18

    • בִּלְתִּ֥יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: not

Hosea

one use
  • Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.

    Hosea 13:4

    • בִּלְתִּֽי׃biltinoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: except me

Amos

two uses
  • Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?

    Amos 3:3

    • בִּלְתִּ֖יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: except
  • Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?

    Amos 3:4

    • בִּלְתִּ֖יbiltinoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: except

The letters

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Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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