אַ֫יִן
nothing
also: not, nought 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
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H369 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 72 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 1:6 אֵֽין ptcl neg From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: Wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
- Isaiah 1:15 אֵינֶ֣/נִּי ptcl neg + sfx pers 1cs When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
- Isaiah 1:30 אֵ֥ין ptcl neg For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, And as a garden that has no water.
- Isaiah 1:31 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg The strong will be like tinder, And his work like a spark. They will both burn together, And no one will quench them."
- Isaiah 2:7 וְ/אֵ֥ין וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg conj + ptcl neg Their land is full of silver and gold, Neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, Neither is there any end of their chariots.
- Isaiah 3:7 אֵ֥ין וְ/אֵ֣ין ptcl neg conj + ptcl neg In that day he will cry out, saying, I will not be a healer; For in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.
- Isaiah 5:9 מֵ/אֵ֥ין prep + ptcl neg In my ears, Yahweh of Hosts says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
- Isaiah 5:27 אֵין וְ/אֵין ptcl neg conj + ptcl neg None shall be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the belt of their loins be untied, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
- Isaiah 5:29 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, And seize their prey and carry it off, And there will be no one to deliver.
- Isaiah 6:11 מֵ/אֵ֣ין מֵ/אֵ֣ין prep + ptcl neg prep + ptcl neg Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the land becomes utterly waste,
- Isaiah 8:20 אֵֽין ptcl neg To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
- Isaiah 9:7 אֵֽין ptcl neg Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this.
- Isaiah 13:14 וְ/אֵ֣ין conj + ptcl neg It shall happen, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.
- Isaiah 14:31 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg Howl, gate; cry, city; you are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
- Isaiah 17:2 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
- Isaiah 17:14 אֵינֶ֑/נּוּ ptcl neg + sfx pers 3ms At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.
- Isaiah 19:7 וְ/אֵינֶֽ/נּוּ conj + ptcl neg + sfx pers 3ms The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
- Isaiah 22:22 וְ/אֵ֣ין וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg conj + ptcl neg The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
- Isaiah 23:10 אֵ֖ין ptcl neg Pass through your land as the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.
- Isaiah 27:4 אֵ֣ין ptcl neg Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn them together.
- Isaiah 33:19 אֵ֥ין ptcl neg You shall not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can not comprehend, of a strange language that you can not understand.
- Isaiah 34:10 אֵ֥ין ptcl neg It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
- Isaiah 34:12 וְ/אֵֽין conj + ptcl neg They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
- Isaiah 37:3 אַ֖יִן ptcl neg They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.
- Isaiah 40:16 אֵ֥ין אֵ֥ין ptcl neg ptcl neg Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the animals of it sufficient for a burnt offering.
- Isaiah 40:17 כְּ/אַ֣יִן prep + ptcl neg All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
- Isaiah 40:23 לְ/אָ֑יִן prep + ptcl neg who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
- Isaiah 40:28 אֵ֥ין ptcl neg Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
- Isaiah 40:29 וּ/לְ/אֵ֥ין conj + prep + ptcl neg He gives power to the faint; and to him who has no might he increases strength.
- Isaiah 41:11 כְ/אַ֛יִן prep + n c ms Behold, all those who are incensed against you shall be disappointed and confounded: those who strive with you shall be as nothing, and shall perish.
- Isaiah 41:12 כְ/אַ֛יִן prep + n c ms You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even those who contend with you: those who war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing.
- Isaiah 41:17 וָ/אַ֔יִן conj + ptcl neg The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst; I, Yahweh, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- Isaiah 41:24 מֵ/אַ֔יִן prep + ptcl neg Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.
- Isaiah 41:26 אֵין אֵ֣ין אֵין ptcl neg ptcl neg ptcl neg Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, [He is] right? yes, there is none who declares, yes, there is none who shows, yes, there is none who hears your words.
- Isaiah 41:28 וְ/אֵ֣ין וְ/אֵ֣ין conj + ptcl neg conj + ptcl neg When I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
- Isaiah 42:22 וְ/אֵ֣ין וְ/אֵין conj + ptcl neg conj + ptcl neg But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.
- Isaiah 43:11 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg I, even I, am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.
- Isaiah 43:12 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange [god] among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and I am God.
- Isaiah 43:13 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
- Isaiah 44:6 אֵ֥ין ptcl neg 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 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg 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 44:12 וְ/אֵ֣ין conj + ptcl neg The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
- Isaiah 45:5 וְ/אֵ֣ין אֵ֣ין conj + ptcl neg ptcl neg 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 45:6 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg 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 45:9 אֵין ptcl neg Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?"
- Isaiah 45:14 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you. In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you. They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no other god.
- Isaiah 45:18 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there is no one else.
- Isaiah 45:21 וְ/אֵֽין אַ֖יִן conj + ptcl neg ptcl neg 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 45:22 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.
- Isaiah 46:9 וְ/אֵ֣ין conj + ptcl neg Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;
- Isaiah 47:1 אֵין ptcl neg Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
- Isaiah 47:10 אֵ֣ין ptcl neg For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
- Isaiah 47:14 אֵין ptcl neg Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
- Isaiah 47:15 אֵ֖ין ptcl neg Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
- Isaiah 48:22 אֵ֣ין ptcl neg There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.
- Isaiah 50:2 וְ/אֵ֣ין וְ/אֵ֣ין אֵֽין מֵ/אֵ֣ין conj + ptcl neg conj + ptcl neg ptcl neg prep + ptcl neg Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
- Isaiah 50:10 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.
- Isaiah 51:18 אֵין וְ/אֵ֤ין ptcl neg conj + ptcl neg There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.
- Isaiah 55:1 אֵֽין ptcl neg Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to the waters, and he who has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- Isaiah 57:1 וְ/אֵ֥ין בְּ/אֵ֣ין conj + ptcl neg prep + ptcl neg The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
- Isaiah 57:21 אֵ֣ין ptcl neg There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
- Isaiah 59:4 אֵין וְ/אֵ֥ין ptcl neg conj + ptcl neg None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- Isaiah 59:8 וְ/אֵ֥ין conj + ptcl neg The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
- Isaiah 59:10 וּ/כְ/אֵ֥ין conj + prep + ptcl neg We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
- Isaiah 59:11 וָ/אַ֔יִן conj + ptcl neg We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
- Isaiah 59:15 אֵ֥ין ptcl neg Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.
- Isaiah 59:16 אֵ֣ין אֵ֣ין ptcl neg ptcl neg He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.
- Isaiah 60:15 וְ/אֵ֣ין conj + ptcl neg Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
- Isaiah 63:3 אֵֽין ptcl neg I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.
- Isaiah 63:5 וְ/אֵ֣ין וְ/אֵ֣ין conj + ptcl neg conj + ptcl neg I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.
- Isaiah 64:7 וְ/אֵין conj + ptcl neg There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
- Isaiah 66:4 וְ/אֵ֣ין conj + ptcl neg I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight.
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.
At its core, אין (ʼayin) means “nothing.” Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “not” and “nought”. Spanning 686 verses in 38 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 2:5. Sharing its root, it stands alongside אין and אין. 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 H369 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 →
- 686
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 686 distinct verses.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #59
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 59 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 686 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 686 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 325 verses · 47%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 241 verses · 35%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 120 verses · 17%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 4 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Abundance 1×, Are innumerable 1×, Are not 1×
- American Standard Version†: Abundance 1×, Are innumerable 1×, Are not 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: No 114×, Is no 85×, One 68×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Is no 168×, Is not 78×, Was no 52×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H369 across 29† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H369 across 29† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H369 across 745† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 134 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 32 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H369 across 834† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 72 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
16 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 16 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
אין I (from אַי
אין II ought, v. p. 34.
אין III whence? v. sub אַי.
אין IV cstr. אֵין subst. proposes nothing, nought (Moab. אן, As. iûnu).
- 1. †Is 40:23 הַנּוֹתֵן רוֹזְנִים לְאָ֑יִן who bringeth princes to nothing; †כְּאַיִן as nothing, ib. 40:17; 41:11, 12 Hg 2:3 ψ 39:6; almost (‖ כִּמְעַט) ψ 73:2; †מֵאַיִן of nothing Is 41:24. e.g. Isaiah 40:23
- 2. cstr. אֵין, very freq. as particle of negation, is not, are not, was not, were not, etc. (corresp. to the affirm. יֵשׁ q.v. Similar in usage, though not etym. akin, are لَيْسَ, לַיִת, ܠܰܝܬ, አልቦ), proposes ‘there is nought of …’ sq. a subst. or a pron. suffix (אֵינֶנִּי [verbal form, Ges§ 100, 5; 152, 1 c], אֵינְךָ, אֵינֵךְ, אֵינֶנּוּ, אֵינֶנָּה, אֵינְכֶם, אֵינָם, also ψ 59:14 אֵינֵ֫מוֹ, 73:5 אֵינֵ֫ימוֹ): twice abnormally, in late Heb., a nom. אֵין אֲנִי, אֵין אֲנַחְנוּ Ne 4:17 (so sts. לַיִת, ܠܰܝܬ, NöM. p. 295); once, incorrectly, את Hg 2:17 (?). e.g. Psalms 59:14
- a. denying existence absolutely Is 44:6; 47:10 אֵין רֹאָנִי there is none that seeth me, lit. nought of one seeing me! אֵין עוֹד there is none else Dt 4:39 1 K 8:60 Is 45:5, 6, 18, 22. e.g. Isaiah 44:6
- b. more commonly, in a limited sense, there is none here or at hand Ex 2:12 and he saw כִּי־אֵין אִישׁ that there was no man (sc. there), Nu 21:5; Gn 5:24 וְאֵינֶנּוּ and he was not (of Enoch’s disappearance from earth) 42:13 one (cas.pend. as oft.), he is not, v 36; oft. = is (or has) vanished Gn 37:30 1 K 20:40 Is 17:14 ψ 37:10; 39:14; 103:16 Jb 8:22; 24:24; 27:19. e.g. Exodus 2:12
- c. with the sense determined by a predic. following: Gn 37:29 Joseph was not in the pit, 41:39 + often; Ex 5:10 אֵינֶנִּי נֹתֵן לָכֶם תֶּבֶן I am not giving you straw; and so often with particip. where duration has to be expressed Gn 39:23 Dt 21:18 Is 1:15 Je 7:16, or intention Gn 20:7 אִם אֵינְךָ מֵשִׁיב דַּע … if thou art not restoring her, know, 43:5 Ex 8:17; 33:15 (idiomatically, after אם; v. Dr§ 137) Ju 12:3. Foll. once pleon. by יֵשׁ ψ 135:17. Treated as a mere part. of negation, אֵין may vary its position in the sentence, the subst. which should strictly stand in the genitive being not only separated from it by a little word, as בּוֹ Gn 37:24, לוֹ Ex 22:1, שָׁם Ex 12:30, גַּם ψ 14:3, etc., but even for emphasis prefixed to it, as Gn 19:31; 40:8 וּפֹתֵר אֵין אֹתוֹ 41:15 Ex 5:16 Ju 13:9; 14:6; 16:15; 19:1 (so MI 24): if however it be thus brought to the end of a sentence, or be disconnected with what follows, it stands in the absol. form, as Gn 2:5 ואדם אַיִן לעבד האדמה and man there was none to till the ground, Lv 26:37 וְרֹדֵף אָ֑יִן, Nu 20:5 2 K 19:3 Ho 13:4 Mi 7:2. e.g. Genesis 37:29
- d. sometimes the subj. has to be supplied from the context: thus (α) †1 S 9:4 and they passed through the land of Shaalim וָאַיִן and they (the asses) were not (lit. and nought!), especially after vbs. of waiting or seeking Is 59:11 ψ 69:21 Jb 3:9; Is 41:17 Ez 7:25 Pr 14:6; 13:4; 20:4. (β) †Ex 17:7 is י׳ in the midst of us אִם־אָֽיִן׃ or not? Nu 13:20. (γ) †Ju 4:20 וְאָמַרְתְּ אָֽיִן׃ then thou shalt say, There is not, 1 K 18:10 1 S 10:14. (δ) Gn 30:1 give me children, וְאִם־אַיִן and if not, I die, Ex 32:32 Ju 9:15, 20 2 S 17:6 (v. Dr) 2 K 2:10 Jb 33:33. e.g. 1 Samuel 9:4
- e. with subj. not expressed, once (late), Dn 8:5 וְאֵין נוֹגֵעַ בָּאָרֶץ and (it) was not touching the earth. e.g. Daniel 8:5
- f. Ec 8:11, Jb 35:15 with the finite vb.; but rd. here כִּי אֵין פֹּקֵד (the usage of لَيْسَ, cited by De, does not justify the anomaly in Heb.) Je 38:5 the impf. may be due to the fact that no ptcp. of יָכֹל was in use, and a relat. must be tacitly supplied: ‘The king is not (one that) can do aught against you.’ On Ex 3:2 see Ges§ 52, 2 R. 6; Ew§ 169 d. e.g. Ecclesiastes 8:11
- 3. אֵין לְ׳, with subst., or pron., there is (was) not to … = … have, has, had, etc. not: Gn 11:30 אֵין לָהּ וָלָד she had no child, Nu 27:9 וְאִם־אֵין לוֹ בַּת and if he have no daughter + oft.; with a ptcp. Dt 22:27 Je 14:16; 30:17; 49:5; 50:32 ψ 142:5 La 1:2, 9, 17; Ex 22:2 אִם־אֵין לוֹ if he have nought, Dn 9:26 ואין לו and have nought (or none). e.g. Genesis 11:30
- 4. in circumst. clauses (Dr§ 164):—(a) Ex 21:11 she shall go out free אֵין כָּ֑סֶף without money, 22:9 אֵין רֹאֶה none seeing it, Nu 11:6 Is 47:1 Je 2:32 Ho 3:4; 7:11 ψ 32:9; 88:5 +. (b) Dt 32:4 a God of faithfulness וְאֵין עָוֶל and no iniquity, i.e. without iniquity, Je 5:21 Jo 1:6 ψ 104:25. (c) very oft., in such phrases as וְאֵין מַחֲרִיד with none to affright Lv 26:6 (12 textual); וְאֵין מְכַבֶּה Is 1:31 al.; וְאֵין מַצִּיל 5:29 ψ 7:3, etc. (Dr§ 159). e.g. Exodus 21:11
- 5. with inf. and ל׳, it is not to …: i.e. (α) like οὐκ ἔστιν, it is not possible to … (cf. sub יֵשׁ and לֹא), but hardly exc. in late Heb.; 2 Ch 20:6 וְאֵין עִמְּךָ לְהִתְיַצֵּב it is not possible to stand (in conflict) with thee, 22:9 Ezr 9:15 Ec 3:14 Est 4:2. Once without ל, ψ 40:6 אֵין עֲרֹךְ אֵלֶיךָ οὐκ ἔστι παραβάλλειν σοι. (β) there is no need to … 1 Ch 23:26 וְגַם לַלְוִיִּם אֵין־לָשֵׂאת for the Levites also there was no need to bear 2 Ch 5:11; 35:15 (v. Dr§ 202. 1). e.g. 2 Chronicles 20:6
- 6. with prefixes:—
- a. †בְּאֵין prop. in defect of:—(α) for want of, without—Pr 5:23 he will die בְּאֵין מוּסָר for lack of instruction, 11:14 בְּאֵין תַּחְבֻּלוֹת without guidance, 14:4; 15:22; 26:20; 29:18 Is 57:1 Ez 38:11; cf. בְּלֹא. (β) of time = when there was (were) not Pr 8:24(×2). e.g. Proverbs 5:23
- b. †כְּאֵין Is 59:10 כְּאֵין עֵינַיִם poet. for כַּאֲשֶׁר אֵין לוֹ עֵינַיִם (cf. Ew§ 286 g Ges§ 152. 1 h). e.g. Isaiah 59:10
- c. †לְאֵין (α) for לַאֲשֶׁר אֵין לוֹ Is 40:29; in late prose 2 Ch 14:10 Ne 8:10. (β) in the condition of not … (ל of state, v. sub ל) = without or so that not … (peculiar to Ch), 1 Ch 22:4 cedar trees לְאֵין מִסְפָּר without number, 2 Ch 14:12 and there fell of the Cushites לְאֵין־לָהֶם מִחְיָה so that they had none remaining alive, 20:25 לְאֵין מַשָּׂא so that there was no carrying away, 21:18 Ezr 9:14. (γ) עַד־לְאֵין (see עַד ל׳), 2 Ch 36:16 until there was no remedy (cf. עַד אֵין … ψ 40:13 Jb 5:9). e.g. Isaiah 40:29
- d. מֵאֵין (α) (מִן causal) from lack of … Is 50:2 Je 7:32; 19:11 Ez 34:8. (β) (v. מִן 7 b) proposes away from there being no … (with אֵין pleon., cf. מִבְּלִי, and מִבְּלִי אֵין), i.e. so that not …, without, mostly epexegetical of some term expressing desolation: Is 5:9 Surely many houses shall be desolate מֵאֵין יוֹשֵׁב without inhabitant, 6:11 + oft. Je & Zp; Is 6:11 מֵאֵין אָדָם, Je 32:43 מֵאֵין אָדָם וּבְהֵמָה 33:10, 12 Ez 33:28; La 3:49. Once sq. inf. Mal 2:13 so that there is no regarding more. (γ) in Je 10:6, 7 מֵאֵין כָּמוֹךָ, מֵאֵין is supposed by some to = a strengthened אֵין, even none, none at all; but it is difficult to justify this expl. logically; and it is preferable to point מֵאַיִן כָּמוֹךָ whence is any like thee? cf. 30:7. (So Mich v. DrHbr ii.34–7.) e.g. Isaiah 50:2
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. adv. (from אַי; Ass. aina, ainu, Ara. أَيْنَ where? مِنْ أَيْنَ whence?) only in the compound מֵאַ֫יִן17 whence? Gn 29:4; 42:7 (syn. אֵי־מִזֶּה e.g. Gn 16:8 1 S 30:13) Ju 17:9; 19:17 Jb 1:7 (2:2 אֵי־מִזֶּה); used in a rhet. or poet. style (where אֵי־מִזֶּה would be too prosaic) Nu 11:13 מֵאַיִן לִי בָּשָׂר whence have I flesh etc.? 2 K 6:27 Je 30:7 Alas! for that day is great; מֵאַיִן כָּמוֹהוּ whence is its like? (see also II. אַיִן ad fin.) Na 3:7 ψ 121:1 Jb 28:12, 20; in an indirect sentence Jos 2:4 (cf. אֵי־מִזֶּה 1 S 25:11).
III. whence? v. sub אַי.
IV. cstr. אֵין subst. proposes nothing, nought (Moab. אן, As. iûnu).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist
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.
אָיַן
- , Pi. אִיֵּין (= עִיֵּין, v. next w.) to look upon, investigate. B. Bath. 115ᵃ (play on אִין) אַיֵּין עליו Ar. (ed. עַיֵּין) investigate his family relations. Kidd. 4ᵃ
אַיִן I
- (√או; cmp. אָוֶן, עַיִן) [b. h. naught], something rounded, decorative. Koh. R. to III, 12 expl. as נוֹי, ref. to the shape of the human buttock, v. אֱפִיפְּיוֹן.
אַיִן II
- where? (only with pref. מ or ל). לְאַ׳ whither? מֵאַ׳ whence? Y. Snh. X, 28ᵈ bot; Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᵃ bot. מא׳ ולא׳ whence and whither?—Aboth III, 1. Gen. R. s. 2 מא׳ הרגלים whence art thou coming? i.e. where hast thou been staying?—Y. Snh. X, 28ᵇ top היה לו מא׳ ללמוד he had (a precedent) to learn from.—Contr. of מן אין: מִנַיִן, v. מִן.
אֵין
- nothing, not. Ber. 5ᵃ אין עוף אלא וכ׳ uf (flight, Job V, 7) means nothing else but &c.; a. v. fr.—אֵינִי, אֵינְךָ not I &c. אֵינִי יודע I do not know; do I not know? B. Mets. 97ᵇ; a. fr. Ber. l. c. but the Holy One … אֵינוֹ כן is not so; a. fr.—אֵינוֹ דין is it not a legitimate conclusion?, whence so much the more. Y. Naz. VI, 55ᵃ; a. v. fr.—… אין לי אלא … מניין from this I could only prove …, whence, however, will you deduct …? Ḥull. 65ᵇ; a. fr. [Y. Git. IX, end, 50ᵈ אפי׳ כתב אינו read סימנו.] e.g. Job 5:7
אִין I
- (Syr. = הֵין, הֶן) yes, indeed. Keth. 65ᵃ השתא א׳ וכ׳ now,—yes, but not before. B. Mets. 98ᵃ חדא א׳ בעידן וכ׳ as regards the one (cow)—well, she died &c.; a. fr.—אֵינִי = אִין הִי is it really so? indeed?, i.e. it cannot be. Ḥull. 96ᵇ א׳ והאמר it cannot be so; for did not R. … say &c.? M. Kat. 20ᵃ; a. v. fr.
אִין II
- 1. if, whether. Targ. Ps. VII, 4; a. e. [Apocopated: אִי q. v.]—אין תימר (h. אם תאמר) if thou wilt say (argue). Y. Macc. II, 31ᵈ bot.; a. fr.—אין כיני (h. אם כן היא) if this is (be) the case. Y. Naz. VI, 54ᵈ bot.—Lam. R. introd. end אן את יתיב וכ׳ if thou remainest here, or &c. Koh. R. to X, 5 אן אתת ענתה וכ׳ if the (my dying) time comes first, what of it? and if &c.
- 2. adv. of interrogation, introducing the alternative, or. Targ. Job VI, 6; a. e.
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Forms in the corpus
The 119 distinct written forms H369 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֵ֥ין | Particle, Negative | Amos 5:2 | 102 |
| וְ/אֵ֥ין | Particle, Negative | Daniel 8:4 | 98 |
| אֵ֣ין | Particle, Negative | Amos 3:4 | 89 |
| וְ/אֵ֣ין | Particle, Negative | Daniel 9:26 | 73 |
| אֵֽין | Particle, Negative | Amos 2:11 | 60 |
| אֵין | Particle, Negative | Ecclesiastes 8:11 | 56 |
| אֵ֤ין | Particle, Negative | Deuteronomy 31:17 | 23 |
| וְ/אֵין | Particle, Negative | Amos 5:6 | 21 |
| מֵ/אֵ֥ין | Particle, Negative | Ezekiel 33:28 | 18 |
| אֵינֶ֥/נּוּ | Particle, Negative | Deuteronomy 21:20 | 11 |
| אֵ֖ין | Particle, Negative | Deuteronomy 4:39 | 10 |
| וְ/אֵ֖ין | Particle, Negative | Deuteronomy 28:26 | 10 |
| וְ/אֵֽין | Particle, Negative | Ecclesiastes 9:5 | 10 |
| אַ֖יִן | Particle, Negative | Genesis 30:1 | 8 |
| וְ/אֵ֤ין | Particle, Negative | Ecclesiastes 4:1 | 8 |
| בְּ/אֵ֣ין | Particle, Negative | Ezekiel 38:11 | 7 |
| אֵ֨ין | Particle, Negative | Ecclesiastes 2:16 | 6 |
| אֵינֶ֣/נּוּ | Particle, Negative | Deuteronomy 21:18 | 6 |
| וְ/אֵ֨ין | Particle, Negative | Daniel 10:21 | 6 |
| מֵ/אֵ֣ין | Particle, Negative | Ezekiel 34:8 | 6 |
| לְ/אֵ֣ין | Particle, Negative | 1 Chronicles 22:4 | 5 |
| אָ֑יִן | Particle, Negative | 1 Kings 18:10 | 4 |
| וְ/אֵינֶֽ/נּוּ | Particle, Negative | Isaiah 19:7 | 4 |
| אֵינֶ֣/נִּי | Particle, Negative | Isaiah 1:15 | 3 |
| אֵ֚ין | Particle, Negative | 1 Kings 8:9 | 3 |
| אֵינֶ֑/נּוּ | Particle, Negative | 1 Kings 20:40 | 3 |
| אֵינֶ֔/נּוּ | Particle, Negative | Genesis 37:30 | 3 |
| אֵינֶ֛/נּוּ | Particle, Negative | Deuteronomy 29:15 | 3 |
| אֵינֶ֨/נּוּ | Particle, Negative | Genesis 39:9 | 3 |
| אֵינֶֽ/נּוּ | Particle, Negative | Genesis 42:13 | 3 |
| אֵינָ֥/ם | Particle, Negative | Ecclesiastes 5:1 | 3 |
| אַ֔יִן | Particle, Negative | Genesis 2:5 | 3 |
| אַ֕יִן | Particle, Negative | Exodus 32:32 | 3 |
| אָֽיִן | Particle, Negative | Exodus 17:7 | 3 |
| הַ/אֵ֨ין | Particle, Negative | 1 Kings 22:7 | 3 |
| וְ/אֵינֶ֑/נּוּ | Particle, Negative | Job 3:21 | 3 |
| וְ/אֵינֶֽ/נִּי | Particle, Negative | Job 7:8 | 3 |
| וָ/אַ֔יִן | Particle, Negative | 1 Samuel 9:4 | 3 |
| לְ/אֵ֥ין | Particle, Negative | Ezra 9:14 | 3 |
| אֵ֝֗ין | Particle, Negative | Psalms 14:3 | 2 |
| אֵֽינְ/ךָ֣ | Particle, Negative | Genesis 20:7 | 2 |
| אֵֽינְ/כֶם֙ | Particle, Negative | Deuteronomy 1:32 | 2 |
| אֵין֙ | Particle, Negative | Genesis 47:13 | 2 |
| אֵינְ/ךָ֣ | Particle, Negative | 2 Samuel 19:7 | 2 |
| אֵינְ/כֶ֖ם | Particle, Negative | Ezekiel 20:39 | 2 |
| אֵינְ/כֶ֥ם | Particle, Negative | Deuteronomy 4:12 | 2 |
| אֵינֶ֛/נָּה | Particle, Negative | Leviticus 13:21 | 2 |
| אֵינֶ֣/נָּה | Particle, Negative | Leviticus 11:26 | 2 |
| אֵינֶ֤/נִּי | Particle, Negative | Jeremiah 14:12 | 2 |
| אֵינֶ֥/נִּי | Particle, Negative | Deuteronomy 4:22 | 2 |
| אֵינָ֣/ם | Particle, Negative | Esther 3:8 | 2 |
| אַ֭יִן | Particle, Negative | Job 33:33 | 2 |
| וְ/אֵינְ/ךָ֖ | Particle, Negative | Ezekiel 28:19 | 2 |
| וְ/אֵינָ֔/ם | Particle, Negative | Jeremiah 10:20 | 2 |
| וְ/אֵינָ֥/ם | Particle, Negative | Jeremiah 32:33 | 2 |
| וְֽ/אֵין | Particle, Negative | Hosea 4:1 | 2 |
| וָ/אַ֑יִן | Particle, Negative | Job 3:9 | 2 |
| וָ/אָֽיִן | Particle, Negative | Ezekiel 7:25 | 2 |
| וּ/מֵ/אֵ֥ין | Particle, Negative | Jeremiah 33:10 | 2 |
| כְ/אַ֛יִן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 41:11 | 2 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 59 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 646 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 686 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 2:5
- Exodus 2:12
- Leviticus 11:4
- Numbers 5:8
- Deuteronomy 1:32
- Joshua 6:1
- Judges 3:25
- Ruth 4:4
- 1 Samuel 1:2
- 2 Samuel 3:22
- 1 Kings 3:18
- 2 Kings 1:3
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.
