בִּלְעֲדֵי
except
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Every verse where H1107 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 6 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 36:10 הֲ/מִ/בַּלְעֲדֵ֣י ptcl inter + prep + Preposition Am I now come up without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
- Isaiah 43:11 מִ/בַּלְעָדַ֖/י prep + prep + sfx pers 1cs I, even I, am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.
- Isaiah 44:6 וּ/מִ/בַּלְעָדַ֖/י conj + prep + Preposition + sfx pers 1cs Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
- Isaiah 44:8 מִ/בַּלְעָדַ֔/י prep + prep + sfx pers 1cs Don't fear, neither be afraid: haven't I declared to you of old, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don't know any Rock.
- Isaiah 45:6 בִּלְעָדָ֑/י prep + sfx pers 1cs that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
- Isaiah 45:21 מִ/בַּלְעָדַ֔/י prep + prep + sfx pers 1cs Declare you, and bring [it] forth; yes, let them take counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? who has declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior; there is no one besides me.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בלעדי — transliterated bilʻădêy — is a Hebrew word carrying the sense “except.” Translators differ — “beside” in the King James Version, then “me” (Berean Standard Bible) and “except me” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 16 verses in 9 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Isaiah (38% of all occurrences). It first appears in Genesis 14:24. See the sense tree, 16-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1107 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,671
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 63%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 25%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Beside 5×, Save 4×, Without 4×
- American Standard Version: Besides 4×, Save 4×, Without 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Me 5×, Besides 2×, Other than 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Except me 5×, Except 3×, Besides 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1107 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1107 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1107 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1107 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- apart from, except, without, besides
Word origin
בִּלְעֲדֵי prop. not unto, hence apart from, except, without
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בל (bal) (H1077) — not.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms H1107 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּלְעָדָ֑/י | Preposition | Genesis 41:16 | 2 |
| הֲ/מִ/בַּלְעֲדֵ֣י | Preposition | 2 Kings 18:25 | 2 |
| מִ/בַּלְעֲדֵ֣י | Preposition | 2 Samuel 22:32 | 2 |
| מִ/בַּלְעָדַ֔/י | Preposition | Isaiah 44:8 | 2 |
| בִּלְעֲדֵ֣י | Particle, Negative | Job 34:32 | 1 |
| בִּלְעָדַ֗/י | Preposition | Genesis 14:24 | 1 |
| הֲ/מִֽ/בַּלְעֲדֵ֣י | Preposition | Jeremiah 44:19 | 1 |
| וּ/בִלְעָדֶ֗י/ךָ | Preposition | Genesis 41:44 | 1 |
| וּ/מִ/בַּלְעָדַ֖/י | Preposition | Isaiah 44:6 | 1 |
| מִ/בַּלְעָדַ֖/י | Preposition | Isaiah 43:11 | 1 |
| מִֽ/בַּלְעֲדֵ֔י | Preposition | Joshua 22:19 | 1 |
| מִֽ/בַּלְעֲדֵ֖י | Preposition | Numbers 5:20 | 1 |
| מִֽ/בַּלְעֲדֵ֥י | Preposition | 2 Samuel 22:32 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1107, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 15 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 14:24
- Numbers 5:20
- Joshua 22:19
- 2 Samuel 22:32
- 2 Kings 18:25
- Job 34:32
- Isaiah 36:10
- Jeremiah 44:19
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
