בִּלְעֲדֵי
bilʻădêy · H1107 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences
Meanings
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other than, apart from, without
Particle indicating that a certain state is not true or that an event does not take place without the involvement of someone else
ExamplesGenesis 14:24 “I will take nothing except what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their share.”
Genesis 41:44 Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Though I am Pharaoh, yet without your permission no one shall raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”
Numbers 5:20 if, however, you have gone astray, though under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had sexual intercourse with you”
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that which not
Meaning unsure; possibly: particle linking two elements, in which Y modifies the information presented by X, by which X represents an implicit entity denoting an object, location, time, or manner, and Y represents a negated proposition in which X is one of the semantic arguments
ExamplesJob 34:32 Teach me what I do not see; If I have done wrong, I will not do it again’?
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- πλήν plḗn · G4133 · but, nevertheless, except
- Greek πλήν renders Hebrew בִּלְעֲדֵי in exceptive/exclusive contexts where both express limitation or exception ('except,' 'save,' 'besides'), though πλήν has broader adversative uses ('nevertheless,' 'however') outside the alignment overlap.
- ἄνευ áneu · G427 · without, not with, no relationship to
- Greek ἄνευ (aneu) serves as a direct translation equivalent of Hebrew בִּלְעֲדֵי (bil'adei) in expressing absence or lack, both functioning as prepositions meaning 'without' in their respective languages.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Negators004006
- The word functions as a negating or exclusive particle meaning 'except' or 'without,' as Abraham says he will take nothing 'except what the young men have eaten' in Genesis 14:24, fitting this domain's category for negation and exclusion.
- Description002001
- The word qualifies or restricts the scope of a statement, describing what is excluded or set apart from what is affirmed, connecting it to this domain's broad sense of descriptive qualification.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1107. bilade בִּלְעֲדֵי (perhaps from בַּל and עֲדֵי עַד, unto; Syriac = ἄνευ, χωρίς;…
בִּלְעֲדֵי (perhaps from בַּל and עֲדֵי עַד, unto; Syriac = ἄνευ, χωρίς; Nabataean בלעד except, EutNab 3, 9) — suffix בִּלְעָדַי (3 t.), בַּלְעָדַי (4 t.), בִּלְעָדֶיךָ (once) — properly not unto, hence apart from, except, without:
a. Job 34:32 אֶחֱזֶה בִּלְעֲדֵי except, apart from (what) I see myself, do thou instruct me. With suffix Gen 41:44 בִּלְעָדֶיךָ apart from thee, without thee, no one shall lift up the head, Isa 45:6 for there is none בִּלְעָדָ֑י except me. Also with suffix, as a particle of deprecation, Gen 14:24 בִּלְעָדַי not to me ! i.e. I claim nothing, (in our idiom) not at all ! Gen 41:16.
b. with מִבַּלְעֲדֵי מִן, (so without). (α) apart from, especially with the collateral idea of without the knowledge and consent, Num 5:20; 2Ki 18:25 ( = Isa 36:10) am I now come up apart from, without ׳י against this place to destroy it? Jer 44:19 (compare בִלְעָדֶיךָ Gen 41:44). (β) apart from, besides, except, Jos 22:19; 2Sa 22:32a ( = Psa 18:32a) for who is God except ׳י? Psa 18:32b; similarly Isa 43:11 מוֺשִׁיעַ מִבַּלְעָדַי וְאֵין, Isa 44:6, Isa 44:8; Isa 45:21.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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