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Lexicon :: Strong's H408 - 'al

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אַל
Transliteration
'al
Pronunciation
al
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Part of Speech
adverb of negation
Root Word (Etymology)
A negative particle [akin to לֹא (H3808)]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 90

Strong’s Definitions

אַל ʼal, al; a negative particle (akin to H3808); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing:—nay, neither, + never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's H408 in the following manner: never (2x), nay (1x), neither (1x), no (1x), none (1x), nor (1x), not (1x), nothing (1x), rather than (1x), whither (1x), nothing worth (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's H408 in the following manner: never (2x), nay (1x), neither (1x), no (1x), none (1x), nor (1x), not (1x), nothing (1x), rather than (1x), whither (1x), nothing worth (1x).
  1. not, no, nor, neither, nothing (as wish or preference)

    1. do not, let not (with a verb)

    2. let there not be (with a verb understood)

    3. not, no (with substantive)

    4. nothing (as substantive)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַל ʼal, al; a negative particle (akin to H3808); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing:—nay, neither, + never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.
STRONGS H408: Abbreviations
II. אַל adverb of negation (so Phoenician e.g. CISi.3,4.5.8, Biblical Aramaic H409, Sabean (DHMZMG 1875, 596), and in the Ethiopic አልቦ፡ albo, is not), denying however, not objectively as a fact (like לֹא οὐ), but subjectively as a wish (like μή), expressing therefore a deprecation or prohibition:
a.
(a) with a verb, which is then always an imperfect (never an imperative), by preference in the cohortative or jussive mood, where this is in use, and may be of any person or number; Genesis 15:1 and often אַל־תִּירָא fear not! Genesis 22:12 יָֽדְךָ אַל־תִּשְׁלַח put not forth thy hand, Genesis 37:27 וְיָדֵנוּ אַל־תְּהִי־בוֺ and let not our hand be upon him, Genesis 21:16 אַל־אֶרְאֶה let me not look upon the death of the lad! Psalm 25:2 אַל־אֵבוֺשָׁה let me not be ashamed; with1st person plural (rare) 2 Samuel 13:25; Jeremiah 18:18; Jonah 1:14. In an imprecation: Genesis 49:4 אַל־תּוֺתַר have not thou the excellency! Psalm 109:12; Job 3:4, 6. Sometimes strengthened by נָא : Genesis 13:8; Genesis 18:3 and elsewhere.
(b) without a verb,
(α) 2 Samuel 1:21 let (there be) not dew & not rain upon you! Isaiah 62:6; Psalm 83:1.
(β) used absolutely, in deprecation Genesis 19:18; 2 Samuel 13:16 (see below אוֺדָה) 2 Kings 3:13; 2 Kings 4:16; 2 Kings 6:27 (see RVm: but possibly to be explained by Dr§ 152 iii; so Th Ke: hardly as Ew§ 355 b) Ruth 1:13 אַל בְּנֹתַי Nay, my daughters, compare Judges 19:23;
(γ) after a preceding imperative Amos 5:14; Joel 2:13; Proverbs 8:10, a jussive Proverbs 27:2, an infinitive absolute Proverbs 27:2.
(c) in poetry אַל sometimes expresses vividly the emotion or sympathy of the poet (see Dr§ 56-8); Isaiah 2:9 וְאַל־תִּשָּׂא לָהֶם and forgive them not! (with a touch of passion), Psalm 41:3; Proverbs 3:25; Job 5:22; Psalm 34:6 (but Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Ew Che here read וּפְנֵיכֶם, probably rightly); Psalm 50:3a may our God come וְאַל־ יֶ֫חֱשָרשׁ and not be silent! (the psalmist identifying himself with a spectator of the scene Psalm 50:2, Psalm 50:3b Psalm 50:3c) Psalm 121:3 (contrast Psalm 121:4 לֹא) Jeremiah 46:6 +.
b. once Proverbs 12:28 joined closely to a substantive (compare לֹא 2 b) to express with emphasis its negation: In the way of righteousness is life, and in the pathway therecf אַל־מָוֶת there is no-death! i.e. immortality.
c. once Job 24:25 used in poetry as a substantive, And bring my words לְאַל to nought!N.B. 1 Samuel 27:10 הַיּוֺם אַל־פְּשַׁטְתֶּם אַל with the perfect is against all analogy; and either אֶל־מִי (with Greek Version of the LXX. Vulgate), or better אָן whither? (with Syriac Version Targum : see 1 Samuel 10:14) must be read.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

13:8; 15:1; 18:3; 19:18; 21:16; 22:12; 37:27; 49:4

Judges

19:23

Ruth

1:13

1 Samuel

10:14; 27:10

2 Samuel

1:21; 13:16; 13:25

2 Kings

3:13; 4:16; 6:27

Job

3:4; 3:6; 5:22; 24:25

Psalms

25:2; 34:6; 41:3; 50:2; 50:3; 50:3; 50:3; 83:1; 109:12; 121:3; 121:4

Proverbs

3:25; 8:10; 12:28; 27:2; 27:2

Isaiah

2:9; 62:6

Jeremiah

18:18; 46:6

Joel

2:13

Amos

5:14

Jonah

1:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H408 matches the Hebrew אַל ('al),
which occurs 88 times in 67 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Jer 1:7–Jer 39:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:7 -

But the LORD said to me,

“Do not say, ‘I am [only] a young man,’

Because everywhere I send you, you shall go,

And whatever I command you, you shall speak.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:8 -

“Do not be afraid of them [or their hostile faces],

For I am with you [always] to protect you and deliver you,” says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:17 - “But you [Jeremiah], [fn]gird up your loins [in preparation]! Get up and tell them all which I command you. Do not be distraught and break down at the sight of their [hostile] faces, or I will bewilder you before them and allow you to be overcome.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3 -

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,

“Plow your uncultivated ground [for a season],

And do not sow among thorns.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:6 -

“Raise a banner toward Zion [to mark the way for those seeking safety inside Jerusalem’s walls]!

Seek refuge, do not stand [immobile],

For I am bringing evil from the north (the army of Babylon),

And great destruction.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:10 -

“Go up through the rows of Jerusalem’s vineyards and destroy [them],

But do not completely destroy everything.

Strip away her branches and the tendrils [of her vines],

For they are not the LORDS.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25 -

Do not go out into the field

Nor walk on the road,

For the enemy is armed with the sword;

Terror is on every side.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:4 - “Do not trust in the deceptive and lying words [of the false prophets who claim that Jerusalem will be protected by God because of the temple], saying, ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - if you do not oppress the transient and the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood [by oppression and by unjust judicial murders] in Jerusalem, nor follow after other gods to your own ruin,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:16 -

“Therefore, do not pray for this people [of Judah] or lift up a cry or entreaty for them or make intercession to Me, for I do not hear you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4 -

“Let everyone beware of his neighbor

And do not trust any brother.

For every brother is a supplanter [like Jacob, a deceiver, ready to grab his brother’s heel],

And every neighbor goes around as a slanderer.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:23 -

Thus says the LORD, “Let not the one who is wise and skillful boast in his insight; let not the one who is mighty and powerful boast in his strength; let not the one who is rich boast in his [temporal satisfactions and earthly] abundance;

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:2 - Thus says the LORD,

“Do not learn the way of the [pagan] nations,

And do not be terrified and distressed by the signs of the heavens

Although the pagans are terrified by them;

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:5 -

“They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field;

They cannot speak;

They have to be carried,

Because they cannot walk!

Do not be afraid of them,

For they can do no harm or evil,

Nor can they do any good.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:24 -

O LORD, correct me [along with Your people], but with mercy and in just measure—

Not in Your anger, or You will crush me and bring me to nothing.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:14 -

“Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I shall not listen when they cry to Me in the time of their disaster.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:6 -

“For even your [tribal] brothers and the household of your father,

Even they have dealt treacherously (unfaithfully) with you;

Indeed they are [like a pack of hounds] howling after you.

Do not believe them, although they may say kind words and promise you good things.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:15 -

Listen and pay close attention, do not be haughty and overconfident,

For the LORD has spoken [says Jeremiah].

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:9 -

“Why should You be [hesitant and inactive] like a man astounded and perplexed,

Like a mighty man unable to save?

Yet You, O LORD, are among us,

And we are called by Your name;

Do not leave us!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:11 - So the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for good things for this people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17 -

“Therefore [Jeremiah] you will say this word to them,

‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,

And let them never cease;

For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a great blow,

With a very serious and severely infected wound.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:21 -

Do not treat us with contempt and condemn us, for Your own name’s sake;

Do not disgrace Your [fn]glorious throne;

Remember [with consideration] and do not break Your [solemn] covenant with us.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:15 -

O LORD, You know and understand;

Remember me [thoughtfully], take notice of me,

take vengeance for me on my persecutors.

Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away;

Know that for Your sake I endure [continual] rebuke and dishonor.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 -

For thus says the LORD, “Do not enter a house of mourning, nor go to lament (express grief) or bemoan [the dead], for I have taken My peace away from this people,” says the LORD, “even My lovingkindness and compassion.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:17 -

Do not be a terror to me;

You are my refuge and my hope in the day of disaster.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:18 -

Let those who persecute me be shamed, but as for me, protect me from shame;

Let them lose courage, but let me be undaunted.

Bring on them a day of tragedy,

And destroy them with double destruction!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:21 - ‘Thus says the LORD, “Pay attention for your own good, [and for the sake of your future] do not carry any load on the Sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 -

Then [my enemies] said, “Come and let us work out schemes against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest [as Jeremiah predicts], nor the counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with our tongue [by making charges against him before the king], and let us ignore anything he says.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23 -

Yet You, O LORD, know

All their deadly plotting against me;

Do not forgive their wickedness

Or blot out their sin from Your sight.

But let them be overthrown before You;

Deal with them in the time of Your anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:14 -

Cursed be the day on which I was born;

Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - ‘Thus says the LORD, “Execute justice and righteousness, and rescue the one who has been robbed from the hand of his oppressor. And do no wrong; do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:10 -

Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him;

But weep bitterly for the one who goes away [into exile],

For he will never return

And see his native country [again].

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:16 -

Thus says the LORD of hosts,

“Do not listen to the words of the [false] prophets who prophesy to you.

They are teaching you worthless things and are leading you into futility;

They speak a vision of their own mind and imagination

And not [truth] from the mouth of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - and do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:2 - “Thus says the LORD, ‘Stand in the court of the LORDS house [Jeremiah], and speak to all [the people of] the cities of Judah who have come to worship in the LORDS house all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not omit a word!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9 - “And as for you, do not listen to your [counterfeit] prophets, your diviners, your dreams and dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers, who say to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:14 - “Do not listen to and believe the words of the [false] prophets who are saying to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesy a lie to you;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 -

Then I said to the priests and to all these people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your [false] prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the articles of the LORDS house will now shortly be brought [fn]back from Babylon’; for they are prophesying a lie to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:17 - “Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:6 - ‘Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there and do not decrease [in number].
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8 - “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your [false] prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you; pay no attention and attach no significance to the dreams which they dream or to yours,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:10 -

‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant,’ says the LORD,

‘Nor be dismayed or downcast, O Israel;

For behold, I will save you from a distant land [of exile]

And your descendants from the land of their captivity.

Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease,

And no one will make him afraid.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:15 - “I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, sending them repeatedly, saying, ‘Let every one of you turn now from his evil way and alter your behavior, and do not follow other gods to worship and serve them; and then you will live in the land which I have given to you and to your forefathers. But you have not submitted or listened to Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:19 - Then the princes said to Baruch, “Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:9 - “Thus says the LORD, ‘Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will certainly stay away from us,” for they will not stay away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:20 - “Therefore now, please listen, O my lord the king; please let my petition come before you and be acceptable and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I may not die there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:14 -

Then King Zedekiah sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance that is in the house of the LORD. And the king said to Jeremiah, “I am going to ask you something; hide nothing from me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:24 -

Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know about this conversation and you will not die.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:25 - “But if the princes (court officials) hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you and say, ‘Tell us now what you said to the king and what he said to you; do not hide it from us and we will not execute you,’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:12 - “Take him and look after him; do nothing to harm him, but rather deal with him just as he asks of you.”

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