אִי
ʼîy · H336 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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not
Marker indicating that the state that follows does not apply
ExamplesJob 22:30 He will rescue one who is not innocent, And he will be rescued due to the cleanness of your hands.
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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Semantic domains 5 entries
- Groups001001003004
- This lexeme's own occurrence attests this indefinite sense of an unspecified “one”, not a group: “He will rescue one who is not innocent” (Job 22:30).
- Land001002002
- This entry carries no independent “Land” sense of its own; this lexeme's sole occurrence, “He will rescue one who is not innocent” (Job 22:30), is the indefinite “one,” not the island/coastland homograph. The domain is bundle-shared with אִי (ʼîy, H337), אִי (ʼîy, H338), and אִי (ʼîy, H339).
- Wild Animals001001002001
- This entry carries no independent “Wild Animals” sense of its own; this lexeme's sole occurrence, “He will rescue one who is not innocent” (Job 22:30), is the indefinite “one,” not the wild-beast homograph. The domain is bundle-shared with אִי (ʼîy, H337), אִי (ʼîy, H338), and אִי (ʼîy, H339).
- Evaluators004005
- This entry carries no independent “Evaluators” sense of its own; this lexeme's sole occurrence, “He will rescue one who is not innocent” (Job 22:30), is the indefinite “one,” not the “woe” interjection homograph. The domain is bundle-shared with אִי (ʼîy, H337), אִי (ʼîy, H338), and אִי (ʼîy, H339).
- Negators004006
- אִי most directly functions here as a negative particle, “not,” as in “he will rescue one who is not innocent” (Job 22:30).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H336. i IV. אִי adverb not (frequently in Rabb, as אֶפְשַׁר אִי impossible; and in…
IV. אִי adverb not (frequently in Rabb, as אֶפְשַׁר אִי impossible; and in Ethiopic the ordinary negative; compare Phoenician אי CISi, 3, 5, and in איבל165; 18; 167; 11; Assyrian ai) Job 22:30 אִינָֿקִי the non-innocent. **Job 22:30: read perhaps אֵל (Me), or אֱלֹהַּ (Ley), with וְתִמָּלֵט in verse b.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 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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