בְּלִימָהbᵉlîymâh
nothingness (Job 26:7)
Pronunciation: bel-ee-mah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1099
Same root
- בְּלִיbᵉlîy · H1097properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
- מָהmâh · H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
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).