זוּלָה
except
‘except’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
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.
- Conjunction
- A joining word (e.g. “and,” “but”) linking words or clauses.
Grammatical forms
- Preposition 15 times (94%)
- Conjunction 1 time (6%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 16 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2108 appears — 16 distinct verses across 11 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.
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:36 זֽוּלָתִ֞י prep save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 4:12 זוּלָתִ֥י prep Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice.
Joshua 1 verse
Ruth 1 verse
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 2 verses
- 1 Kings 3:18 זוּלָתִ֥י prep It happened the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
- 1 Kings 12:20 זוּלָתִ֥י prep It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Isaiah 4 verses
- Isaiah 26:13 זֽוּלָתֶ֑/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.
- Isaiah 45:5 זוּלָתִ֖/י prep + sfx pers 1cs I am Yahweh, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known me;
- Isaiah 45:21 זוּלָתִֽ/י 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.
- Isaiah 64:4 זוּלָ֣תְ/ךָ֔ prep + sfx pers 2ms For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
Hosea 1 verse
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.
“except” is the headline sense of the Hebrew word זולה (zûwlâh). Older and newer Bibles part ways — “beside” in the King James Version, “except” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 16 verses across 11 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 25% of its uses. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2108 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.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 4 verses 25%
- Deuteronomy 2 verses 13%
- 1 Kings 2 verses 13%
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) 11 verses · 69%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 19%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 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 7×, Save 5×
- American Standard Version: Besides 4×, Save 3×, Is there any god besides 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Except 3×, Me 3×, You 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Except 5×, Besides you 3×, Besides me 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2108 across 16 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 H2108 across 16 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2108 across 15 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2108 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 3 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.
- a removal, a putting away (noun feminine)
- except, besides, with the exception of, with removal of (preposition)
- except that (conjunction)
Word origin
[ זוּלָה ] n.[f.] prop. removal, only found in st. c. as prep. and conj. except, only save that
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זול (zûwl) (H2107) — to lavish.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms H2108 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| זוּלָתִ֥י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 4:12 | 3 |
| זֽוּלָתִ/י֙ | Preposition | Hosea 13:4 | 1 |
| זֽוּלָתִ֞י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 1:36 | 1 |
| זֽוּלָתֶ֑/ךָ | Preposition | Isaiah 26:13 | 1 |
| זֽוּלָתֶ֔/ךָ | Preposition | 2 Samuel 7:22 | 1 |
| זוּלַ֖ת | Preposition | 2 Kings 24:14 | 1 |
| זוּלָ֣תְ/ךָ֔ | Preposition | Isaiah 64:4 | 1 |
| זוּלָֽתְ/ךָ֙ | Preposition | Ruth 4:4 | 1 |
| זוּלָתִ֖/י | Preposition | Isaiah 45:5 | 1 |
| זוּלָתִ֛י | Conjunction | Joshua 11:13 | 1 |
| זוּלָתִ֥/י | Preposition | Psalms 18:31 | 1 |
| זוּלָתִֽ/י | Preposition | Isaiah 45:21 | 1 |
| זוּלָתֶ֑/ךָ | Preposition | 1 Chronicles 17:20 | 1 |
| זוּלָתָ֖/הּ | Preposition | 1 Samuel 21:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2108, 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
Compare all same-root words → 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
- Deuteronomy 1:36
- Joshua 11:13
- Ruth 4:4
- 1 Samuel 21:9
- 2 Samuel 7:22
- 1 Kings 3:18
- 2 Kings 24:14
- 1 Chronicles 17:20
- Isaiah 26:13
- Hosea 13:4
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.
