זוּלָה
zûwlâh · H2108 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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except, besides
Marker indicating that an object or event is not included in a range of objects or events
ExamplesDeuteronomy 1:36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him I will give the land on which he has set foot, and to his sons, because he has followed the LORD fully.’
Deuteronomy 4:12 “Then the LORD spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—there was only a voice.
Joshua 11:13 However, Israel did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- אֶפֶס ʼepheç · H657 · there is not, it is not, without
- Both words function as restrictive particles with overlapping senses (“only,” “save,” “but,” “beside, none beside”), and can substitute for each other in restrictive contexts.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πλήν plḗn · G4133 · but, nevertheless, except
- Greek πλήν regularly renders Hebrew זוּלָה in restrictive/exceptive constructions ('but, save, except'), both functioning as adversative or limiting particles that carve out exceptions from broader statements.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Restrictors004007
- זוּלָה functions as a restrictive particle meaning 'except' or 'save,' limiting a statement to a single exception, as only Caleb is excepted from the generation barred from the land.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2108. zulah [זוּלָה] noun [feminine] properly removal, only found in the stative…
[זוּלָה] noun [feminine] properly removal, only found in the stative construct as
preposition and
conjunction except, only, save that — construct זוּלַת 2Ki 24:14 and (with the obsolete case-ending יִ֯) זוּלָתִי Deu 1:36; Deu 4:12; Jos 11:13; 1Ki 3:18; 1Ki 12:20; Psa 18:32; with suffix זוּלָתִי Hos 13:4; Isa 45:5, Isa 45:21, זוּלָתֶ֑ךָ זוּלָֽתְךָ, 2Sa 7:22 = 1Ch 17:20; Isa 26:13; Isa 64:3; Rth 4:4, זוּלָתָהּ 1Sa 21:10; —
1. preposition except, besides, literally with removal of . . . (synonym מִבַּלְעֲדֵי Psa 18:32; Isa 45:21; בִּלְתִּי Hos 13:4; and compare Deu 1:36 with Num 32:12), Deu 1:36 כלב זולתי with the exception of Caleb, 1Sa 21:10 זוּלָתָהּ אַחֶרֶת אֵין there is none other except it, 1Ki 12:20; 2Ki 24:14; Rth 4:4: often in such phrases as, There is no God (or, Who is God?) except me (or thee), 2Sa 7:22; Psa 18:32; Hos 13:4; Isa 45:5, Isa 45:21; Isa 64:3. Always after a negative or question, except Isa 26:13 זולתך אדנים lords other than thou. Connected inexactly with what precedes, ׳ז acquires the force of only, Deu 4:12 ye saw no form קוֺל זוּלָתִי save a voice = (there was) only a voice, 1Ki 3:18.
2 conjunction Jos 11:13 except that he burnt Hazor alone.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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