בִּלְתִּי
except
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Conjunction
- A joining word (e.g. “and,” “but”) linking words or clauses.
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
Every verse where H1115 appears in the Book of Jeremiah — 23 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.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 7:8 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.
- Jeremiah 16:12 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:
- Jeremiah 17:23 לְ/בִלְתִּ֣י וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj conj + prep + ptcl neg But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
- Jeremiah 17:24 לְ/בִלְתִּ֣י לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj prep + conj It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
- Jeremiah 17:27 וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֣י conj + prep + ptcl neg But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
- Jeremiah 18:10 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
- Jeremiah 19:15 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.
- Jeremiah 23:14 לְ/בִ֨לְתִּי prep + conj In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.
- Jeremiah 26:24 לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י prep + conj But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
- Jeremiah 27:18 לְ/בִלְתִּי prep + conj But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 32:40 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
- Jeremiah 33:20 וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י conj + prep + Preposition Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
- Jeremiah 34:9 לְ/בִלְתִּ֧י prep + conj that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.
- Jeremiah 34:10 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his man-servant, and everyone his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
- Jeremiah 35:8 לְ/בִלְתִּ֤י prep + conj We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;
- Jeremiah 35:9 וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י conj + prep + Preposition nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
- Jeremiah 35:14 לְ/בִלְתִּ֣י prep + conj The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.
- Jeremiah 36:25 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them.
- Jeremiah 38:26 לְ/בִלְתִּ֧י prep + conj then you shall tell them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
- Jeremiah 42:13 לְ/בִלְתִּ֣י prep + conj But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,
- Jeremiah 44:5 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
- Jeremiah 44:7 לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י prep + conj Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why commit you [this] great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;
- Jeremiah 51:62 לְ/בִלְתִּ֤י prep + conj and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.
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.
בלתי — transliterated biltîy — is a Hebrew word carrying the sense “except.” BDB distinguishes 7 senses for it. Spanning 107 verses in 21 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 3:11. Sharing its root, it stands alongside בלה, בל and בלא. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1115 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 →
- 107
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 107 distinct verses.
- 21 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 21 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #387
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 387 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 107 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 107 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 70 verses · 65%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 28 verses · 26%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 8%
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: No 3×, Not 3×, Except 2×
- American Standard Version: No 3×, Except 2×, Lest 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Not 16×, No 12×, Nothing 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Not 50×, That 10×, Except 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1115 across 30 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 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 H1115 across 30 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 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 H1115 across 104 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 46 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1115 across 113 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
7 senses in BDB, in lexicon order
The 7 senses 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.
- not, except (substantive)
- not (adverb)
- except (after preceding negation) (adverb)
- except (after an implied or expressed negation) (conjunction)
- so as not, in order not (with preposition)
- an account of not, because...not (with preposition)
- until not (with preposition)
Word origin
Derived from בלה (bâlâh) (H1086) — to wear out.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בַּלְתִּי
- Beth-Baltin &c., v. בִּירָם. R. Hash. II, 4 (22ᵇ; Ms. M. בילתי, בלתי; v. Rabb. D. S. c. l. note). Ib. 23ᵃ bot. מאי בית ב׳ (Ms. M. 1 בילתי, 2 בלחי, Ms. L. בילתין) what is B. B.? Answ. בירם.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 28 distinct written forms H1115 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י | Conjunction | Daniel 9:11 | 19 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י | Conjunction | Exodus 8:22 | 15 |
| בִּלְתִּ֥י | Conjunction | Daniel 11:18 | 12 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּ֤י | Conjunction | Deuteronomy 4:21 | 8 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּ֣י | Conjunction | Ezekiel 22:30 | 7 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י | Conjunction | Genesis 19:21 | 6 |
| בִּלְתִּ֖י | Conjunction | Amos 3:3 | 5 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּי | Conjunction | Ezekiel 13:22 | 5 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּ֨י | Conjunction | Deuteronomy 8:11 | 4 |
| וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י | Preposition | Jeremiah 33:20 | 3 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּ֗י | Conjunction | 1 Kings 15:17 | 3 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּ֧י | Conjunction | 2 Samuel 14:7 | 3 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּי֙ | Conjunction | Deuteronomy 12:23 | 3 |
| בִּלְתִּ֣י | Conjunction | Isaiah 14:6 | 2 |
| וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י | Particle, Negative | Ezekiel 13:3 | 2 |
| לְ/בִ֨לְתִּי | Conjunction | 1 Kings 11:10 | 2 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּ֞י | Conjunction | Job 42:8 | 2 |
| בִּלְתִּ֗י | Conjunction | Judges 7:14 | 1 |
| בִּלְתִּ֞י | Conjunction | Numbers 32:12 | 1 |
| בִּלְתִּ֤י | Conjunction | Isaiah 10:4 | 1 |
| בִּלְתִּֽ/י | Preposition | Hosea 13:4 | 1 |
| בִּלְתֶּ֑/ךָ | Conjunction | 1 Samuel 2:2 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י | Particle, Negative | Jeremiah 17:23 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֣י | Particle, Negative | Jeremiah 17:27 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּי | Conjunction | Deuteronomy 4:21 | 1 |
| לְ/בִלְתִּי֩ | Conjunction | Ezekiel 20:15 | 1 |
| מִ/בִּלְתִּ֖י | Particle, Negative | Ezekiel 16:28 | 1 |
| מִ/בִּלְתִּ֞י | Particle, Negative | Numbers 14:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1115, 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
Shares the same root
- בל bal H1077 not
- בלא bᵉlâʼ H1080 to wear out
- בלה bâleh H1087 worn out
- בלו bᵉlôw H1093 tribute
- בלוא bᵉlôwʼ H1094 rags
- בלי bᵉlîy H1097 without
- תבלית tablîyth H8399 destruction
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 104 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 107 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 3:11
- Exodus 8:22
- Leviticus 18:30
- Numbers 9:7
- Deuteronomy 3:3
- Joshua 5:6
- Judges 2:23
- Ruth 1:13
- 1 Samuel 2:2
- 2 Samuel 14:7
- 1 Kings 6:6
- 2 Kings 10:11
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.
