Strong’s H1097 · Hebrew
בְּלִי
bᵉlîy · bel-ee'
Origin from בָּלָה (H1086);
Meaning properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
In the King James Version corruption, ig(norantly), for lack of, where no...is, so that no, none, not, un(awares), without.
In 14 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 31:20And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
- Deuteronomy 4:42That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
- Deuteronomy 19:4And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
- Joshua 20:5And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
- Job 4:11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
- Job 8:11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- Job 18:15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
- Job 35:16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
- Job 38:41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
- Job 41:33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
- Psalms 63:1A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
- Isaiah 14:6He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
- Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.