Bal בַּל

Bal (Hebrew בַּל, Strong's H1077) is a Hebrew negative particle meaning “not”. It occurs 69 times in 55 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Bal, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 16:30
  Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

Job

• Job 41:23
  The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

Psalms

• Psalm 10:4
  The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
• Psalm 10:6
  He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
• Psalm 10:11
  He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
• Psalm 10:15
  Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
• Psalm 10:18
  To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
• Psalm 16:2
  O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
• Psalm 16:4
  Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.Sorrows will multiply to those who chase other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood, or speak their names with my lips.
• Psalm 16:8
  I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
• Psalm 17:3
  Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
• Psalm 17:5
  Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
• Psalm 21:2
  Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
• Psalm 21:7
  For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.For the king trusts in the LORD; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.
• Psalm 21:11
  For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
• Psalm 30:6
  And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
• Psalm 32:9
  Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.
• Psalm 46:5
  God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
• Psalm 49:12
  Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
• Psalm 58:8
  As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
• Psalm 78:44
  And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
• Psalm 93:1
  The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
• Psalm 96:10
  Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.
• Psalm 104:5
  Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.
• Psalm 104:9
  Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
• Psalm 119:121
  I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.
• Psalm 140:10
  Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.
• Psalm 140:11
  Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
• Psalm 141:4
  Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.
• Psalm 147:20
  He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!

Proverbs

• Proverbs 9:13
  A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
• Proverbs 10:30
  The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.
• Proverbs 12:3
  A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
• Proverbs 14:7
  Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.Stay away from a foolish man; you will gain no knowledge from his speech.
• Proverbs 19:23
  The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
• Proverbs 22:29
  Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
• Proverbs 23:7
  For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
• Proverbs 23:35
  They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
• Proverbs 24:23
  These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 14:21
  Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
• Isaiah 26:10
  Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.
• Isaiah 26:11
  Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!
• Isaiah 26:14
  They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
• Isaiah 26:18
  We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.
• Isaiah 33:20
  Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
• Isaiah 33:21
  But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.
• Isaiah 33:23
  Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.
• Isaiah 33:24
  And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.
• Isaiah 35:9
  No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
• Isaiah 40:24
  Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
• Isaiah 43:17
  Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
• Isaiah 44:8
  Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.”
• Isaiah 44:9
  They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

Hosea

• Hosea 7:2
  And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
• Hosea 9:16
  Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).