Midvash

אַיִןʼayin

אַ֫יִן: nought

Pronunciation: ah'-yin · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H369

Meanings

אַ֫יִן: nothing, nought

1. to nothing, as nothing (Isaiah 40:23; Isaiah 40:17; Isaiah 41:11)

2. is not, are not, was not, were not (Psalms 59:14; Psalms 73:5; Nehemiah 4:17)

3. there is (was) not to, have, has, had, with substantive, or pronoun (Genesis 11:30; Numbers 27:9; Deuteronomy 22:27)

4. in circumstantial clauses

a without money, none seeing it (Exodus 21:11; Exodus 22:9; Numbers 11:6)

b and no iniquity, without iniquity (Deuteronomy 32:4; Jeremiah 5:21; Joel 1:6)

c with none to affright (Leviticus 26:6; Isaiah 1:31; Isaiah 5:29)

5. it is not to, with infinitive and ׳ ל (2 Chronicles 20:6; 2 Chronicles 22:9; Ezra 9:15)

6. with prefixes

a. in defect of, (a) for want of, without (Proverbs 5:23; Proverbs 11:14; Proverbs 14:4)

c. in the condition of not, without (Isaiah 40:29; 2 Chronicles 14:10; Nehemiah 8:10)

d. from lack of..., away from there being no... (Isaiah 50:2; Jeremiah 7:32; Jeremiah 19:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 788 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:5 neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.
  • Genesis 5:24 walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.
  • Genesis 7:8 With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground.
  • Genesis 11:30 But Sarai was unable to become pregnant and had no children.
  • Genesis 19:31 One day the older daughter said to her sister, “There are no men left anywhere in this entire area, so we can’t get married like everyone else. And our father will soon be too old to have children.
  • Genesis 20:7 Now return the woman to her husband, and he will pray for you, for he is a prophet. Then you will live. But if you don’t return her to him, you can be sure that you and all your people will die.”
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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).