בַּלbal
not, a poetic synonym of לֹא, of comparatively rare occurrence (Hosea 7:2; Hosea 9:16; Isaiah 14:21; Isaiah 35:9; Isaiah 43:17)
Pronunciation: bal · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1077
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 69 times in the Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 16:30 Let all the earth tremble before him. The world stands firm and cannot be shaken.
- Job 41:23 Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.
- Psalms 10:4 The wicked are too proud to seek God. They seem to think that God is dead.
- Psalms 10:6 They think, “Nothing bad will ever happen to us! We will be free of trouble forever!”
- Psalms 10:11 The wicked think, “God isn’t watching us! He has closed his eyes and won’t even see what we do!”
- Psalms 10:15 Break the arms of these wicked, evil people! Go after them until the last one is destroyed.
See every passage
- 1 Chronicles 16:30
- Job 41:23
- Psalms 10:4, 10:6, 10:11, 10:15, 10:18, 16:2, 16:4, 16:8, 17:3, 17:5, 21:2, 21:7, 21:11, 30:6, 32:9, 46:5, 49:12, 58:8, 78:44, 93:1, 96:10, 104:5, 104:9, 119:121, 140:10, 140:11, 141:4, 147:20
- Proverbs 9:13, 10:30, 12:3, 14:7, 19:23, 22:29, 23:7, 23:35, 24:23
- Isaiah 14:21, 26:10, 26:11, 26:14, 26:18, 33:20, 33:21, 33:23, 33:24, 35:9, 40:24, 43:17, 44:8, 44:9
- Hosea 7:2, 9:16
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).