# H1097 בְּלִי

בְּלִי (bᵉlîy), Strong’s H1097: properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc. KJV: corruption, ig(norantly), for lack of…

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*bᵉlîy* — properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.

KJV: corruption, ig(norantly), for lack of, where no...is, so that no, none, not…

Derived from [בָּלָה bâlâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H1086) (to fail)

Occurs 58 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בְּלִי subst. wearing out, hence
- 1 fig. destruction
- 2 defect, failure, hence adv. of negation

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=20) — Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
- [Exodus 14:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=11) — They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have…
- [Deuteronomy 4:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=42) — that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that…
- [Deuteronomy 9:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/9?v=28) — lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised…
- [Deuteronomy 19:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/19?v=4) — This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and…
- [Deuteronomy 28:55](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=55) — so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to…
- [Joshua 20:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/20?v=3) — that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a…
- [Joshua 20:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/20?v=5) — If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his…
- [2 Samuel 1:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/1?v=21) — You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; for there the shield of the…
- [2 Kings 1:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/1?v=3) — But the LORD’s angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell…