בְּלִיbᵉlîy

Meanings

Same root

• בָּלָהbâlâh · H1086to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)
• בְּלִימָהbᵉlîymâh · H1099(as indefinitely) nothing whatever
• בְּלִיַּעַלbᵉlîyaʻal · H1100without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness
• בִּלְתִּיbiltîy · H1115properly, 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.

Where it appears

Appears 58 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 31:20 Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, for they set out secretly and never told Laban they were leaving.
• Exodus 14:11 and they said to Moses, “Why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness? Weren’t there enough graves for us in Egypt? What have you done to us? Why did you make us leave Egypt?
• Deuteronomy 4:42 Anyone who killed another person unintentionally, without previous hostility, could flee there to live in safety.
• Deuteronomy 9:28 If you destroy these people, the Egyptians will say, “The Israelites died because the Lord wasn’t able to bring them to the land he had promised to give them.” Or they might say, “He destroyed them because he hated them; he deliberately took them into the wilderness to slaughter them.”
• Deuteronomy 19:4 “If someone kills another person unintentionally, without previous hostility, the slayer may flee to any of these cities to live in safety.
• Deuteronomy 28:55 He will refuse to share with them the flesh he is devouring—the flesh of one of his own children—because he has nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.