בִּלְתִּי
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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.
Grammatical forms
- Conjunction 103 times (92%)
- Particle, Negative 6 times (5%)
- Preposition 3 times (3%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 112 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1115 appears — 107 distinct verses across 21 books. 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.
Genesis 8 verses
- Genesis 3:11 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 4:15 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
- Genesis 19:21 לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י prep + conj He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
- Genesis 21:26 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
- Genesis 38:9 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
- Genesis 43:3 בִּלְתִּ֖י conj Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
- Genesis 43:5 בִּלְתִּ֖י conj but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
- Genesis 47:18 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
Exodus 5 verses
- Exodus 8:22 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst of the earth.
- Exodus 8:29 לְ/בִלְתִּי֙ prep + conj Moses said, "Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don't let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh."
- Exodus 9:17 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.
- Exodus 20:20 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."
- Exodus 22:20 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.
Leviticus 3 verses
- Leviticus 18:30 לְ/בִלְתִּ֨י prep + conj Therefore you shall keep my charge, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"
- Leviticus 20:4 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death;
- Leviticus 26:15 לְ/בִלְתִּ֤י prep + conj and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
Numbers 6 verses
- Numbers 9:7 לְ/בִלְתִּ֨י prep + conj Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"
- Numbers 11:6 בִּלְתִּ֖י conj but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look on.
- Numbers 14:16 מִ/בִּלְתִּ֞י prep + ptcl neg Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
- Numbers 21:35 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.
- Numbers 32:9 לְ/בִלְתִּי prep + conj For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
- Numbers 32:12 בִּלְתִּ֞י conj save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 6 verses
- Deuteronomy 3:3 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to him remaining.
- Deuteronomy 4:21 לְ/בִלְתִּ֤י וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּי prep + conj conj + prep + conj Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance:
- Deuteronomy 8:11 לְ/בִלְתִּ֨י prep + conj Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:
- Deuteronomy 12:23 לְ/בִלְתִּי֙ prep + conj Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
- Deuteronomy 17:12 לְ/בִלְתִּ֨י prep + conj The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 17:20 לְ/בִלְתִּ֤י וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י prep + conj conj + prep + conj that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Joshua 9 verses
- Joshua 5:6 לְ/בִלְתִּ֞י prep + conj For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh: to whom Yahweh swore that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Joshua 8:22 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj The others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
- Joshua 10:33 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
- Joshua 11:8 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining.
- Joshua 11:19 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle.
- Joshua 11:20 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Joshua 22:25 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj for Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no portion in Yahweh: so might your children make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.
- Joshua 23:6 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj Therefore be you very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left;
- Joshua 23:7 לְ/בִלְתִּי prep + conj that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;
Judges 4 verses
- Judges 2:23 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
- Judges 7:14 בִּלְתִּ֗י conj His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the host.
- Judges 8:1 לְ/בִלְתִּי֙ prep + conj The men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you served us thus, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian? They did chide with him sharply.
- Judges 21:7 לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י prep + conj How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
Ruth 3 verses
- Ruth 1:13 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj would you therefore wait until they were grown? would you therefore stay from having husbands? nay, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh is gone forth against me.
- Ruth 2:9 לְ/בִלְתִּ֣י prep + conj Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them: haven't I charged the young men that they shall not touch you? and when you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
- Ruth 3:10 לְ/בִלְתִּי prep + conj He said, Blessed are you by Yahweh, my daughter: you have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich.
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 2:2 בִּלְתֶּ֑/ךָ conj + sfx pers 2ms There is none holy as Yahweh; For there is none besides you, Neither is there any rock like our God.
- 1 Samuel 20:26 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he thought, Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.
2 Samuel 3 verses
- 2 Samuel 14:7 לְ/בִלְתִּ֧י prep + conj Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.
- 2 Samuel 14:13 לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י prep + conj The woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
- 2 Samuel 14:14 לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י prep + conj For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
1 Kings 3 verses
- 1 Kings 6:6 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 11:10 לְ/בִ֨לְתִּי prep + conj and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded.
- 1 Kings 15:17 לְ/בִלְתִּ֗י prep + conj Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
2 Kings 4 verses
- 2 Kings 10:11 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj So Jehu struck all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
- 2 Kings 12:8 לְ/בִלְתִּ֤י וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj conj + prep + ptcl neg The priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
- 2 Kings 17:15 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them.
- 2 Kings 23:10 לְ/בִלְתִּ֗י prep + conj He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 2 verses
- Job 14:12 בִּלְתִּ֣י conj So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
- Job 42:8 לְ/בִלְתִּ֞י prep + conj Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
Isaiah 5 verses
- Isaiah 10:4 בִּלְתִּ֤י conj They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Isaiah 14:6 בִּלְתִּ֣י conj who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
- Isaiah 44:10 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
- Isaiah 48:9 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.
- Isaiah 65:8 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
Jeremiah 23 verses
- 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.
Ezekiel 14 verses
- Ezekiel 3:21 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
- Ezekiel 13:3 וּ/לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י conj + prep + ptcl neg Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
- Ezekiel 13:22 לְ/בִלְתִּי prep + conj Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:
- Ezekiel 16:28 מִ/בִּלְתִּ֖י prep + ptcl neg You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren't satisfied.
- Ezekiel 17:14 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
- Ezekiel 20:9 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 20:14 לְ/בִלְתִּ֤י prep + conj But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
- Ezekiel 20:15 לְ/בִלְתִּי֩ prep + conj Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
- Ezekiel 20:22 לְ/בִלְתִּ֤י prep + conj Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.
- Ezekiel 22:30 לְ/בִלְתִּ֣י prep + conj I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
- Ezekiel 24:8 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
- Ezekiel 29:15 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj It shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
- Ezekiel 33:15 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- Ezekiel 46:20 לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י prep + conj He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, [and] where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they not bring them forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 9:11 לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י prep + conj Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore has the curse been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.
- Daniel 11:18 בִּלְתִּ֥י conj After this shall he turn his face to the isles, and shall take many: but a prince shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; yes, moreover, he shall cause his reproach to turn on him.
Hosea 1 verse
Amos 2 verses
About this entry
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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
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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).
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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.
