Biltîy — H1115

Definition

substantive

1. subst
2. not, except
3. adv
4. not
5. except (after preceding negation)
6. conj
7. except (after an implied or expressed negation)
8. with prep
9. so as not, in order not
10. an account of not, because...not
11. until not

properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until, etc.

Usually translated as

not, save, without, beside, except, lest, nothing, but, neither, no more, none, that no, because un, continual, from

Origin

constructive feminine of H1086 (equivalent to H1097)

• Bâlâh (H1086)
• Bᵉlîy (H1097)

Greek equivalents

• anōphelḗs (G512)
• kathólou (G2527)
• plḗn (G4133)

Occurrences

Biltîy occurs 109 times in 104 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (8), Exodus (5), Leviticus (3), Numbers (6), Deuteronomy (6), Joshua (8), Judges (4), Ruth (2), 1 Samuel (2), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (4), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Job (2), Isaiah (5), Jeremiah (23), Ezekiel (14), Daniel (2), Hosea (1), Amos (2)

• Genesis 3:11 — And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not (לְבִלְתִּ֥י) eat?
• Genesis 4:15 — And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest (לְבִלְתִּ֥י) any finding him should kill him.
• Genesis 19:21 — And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not (לְבִלְתִּ֛י) overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
• Genesis 21:26 — And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but (בִּלְתִּ֥י) to day.
• Genesis 38:9 — And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest (לְבִלְתִּ֥י) that he should give seed to his brother.
• Genesis 43:3 — And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except (בִּלְתִּ֖י) your brother be with you.
• Genesis 43:5 — But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except (בִּלְתִּ֖י) your brother be with you.
• Genesis 47:18 — When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but (בִּלְתִּ֥י) our bodies, and our lands:
• Exodus 8:22 — And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no (לְבִלְתִּ֥י) swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
• Exodus 8:29 — And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not (לְבִלְתִּי֙) letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
• Exodus 9:17 — As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not (לְבִלְתִּ֖י) let them go?
• Exodus 20:20 — And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not (לְבִלְתִּ֥י).
• Exodus 22:20 — He that sacrificeth unto any god, save (בִּלְתִּ֥י) unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
• Leviticus 18:30 — Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not (לְבִלְתִּ֨י) any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
• Leviticus 20:4 — And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not (לְבִלְתִּ֖י):
• Leviticus 26:15 — And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not (לְבִלְתִּ֤י) do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
• Numbers 9:7 — And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not (לְבִלְתִּ֨י) offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
• Numbers 11:6 — But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside (בִּלְתִּ֖י) this manna, before our eyes.
• Numbers 14:16 — Because (מִבִּלְתִּ֞י) the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
• Numbers 21:35 — So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none (בִּלְתִּ֥י) left him alive: and they possessed his land.
• Numbers 32:9 — For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not (לְבִלְתִּי) go into the land which the LORD had given them.
• Numbers 32:12 — Save (בִּלְתִּ֞י) Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
• Deuteronomy 3:3 — So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none (בִּלְתִּ֥י) was left to him remaining.
• Deuteronomy 4:21 — Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not (לְבִלְתִּ֤י) go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
• Deuteronomy 4:21 — Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not (וּלְבִלְתִּי) go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
• Deuteronomy 8:11 — Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not (לְבִלְתִּ֨י) keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
• Deuteronomy 12:23 — Only be sure that thou eat not (לְבִלְתִּי֙) the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
• Deuteronomy 17:12 — And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not (לְבִלְתִּ֨י) hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
• Deuteronomy 17:20 — That his heart be not (לְבִלְתִּ֤י) lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not 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.
• Deuteronomy 17:20 — That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside (וּלְבִלְתִּ֛י) 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 5:6 — For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not (לְבִלְתִּ֞י) shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
• Joshua 8:22 — And the other issued 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 smote them, so that they let none (בִּלְתִּ֥י) of them remain or escape.
• Joshua 10:33 — Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none (בִּלְתִּ֥י) remaining.
• Joshua 11:8 — And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none (בִּלְתִּ֥י) remaining.
• Joshua 11:19 — There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save (בִּלְתִּ֥י) the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.
• Joshua 11:20 — For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no (לְבִלְתִּ֥י) favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Joshua 23:6 — Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not (לְבִלְתִּ֥י) aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
• Joshua 23:7 — That ye come not (לְבִלְתִּי) 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 yourselves unto them:
• Judges 2:23 — Therefore the LORD left those nations, without (לְבִלְתִּ֥י) driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
• Judges 7:14 — And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save (בִּלְתִּ֗י) the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
• Judges 8:1 — And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not (לְבִלְתִּי֙), when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
• Judges 21:7 — How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not (לְבִלְתִּ֛י) give them of our daughters to wives?
• Ruth 2:9 — Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not (לְבִלְתִּ֣י) touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
• Ruth 3:10 — And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not (לְבִלְתִּי) young men, whether poor or rich.
• 1 Samuel 2:2 — There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside (בִּלְתֶּ֑ךָ) thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
• 1 Samuel 20:26 — Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not (בִּלְתִּ֥י) clean; surely he is not clean.
• 2 Samuel 14:7 — And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not (לְבִלְתִּ֧י) leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
• 2 Samuel 14:13 — And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not (לְבִלְתִּ֛י) fetch home again his banished.
• 1 Kings 6:6 — The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not (לְבִלְתִּ֖י) be fastened in the walls of the house.
• 1 Kings 11:10 — And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not (לְבִ֨לְתִּי) go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.