אַל (al) means “not” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: al Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אַל · al · not
1) not, no, nor, neither, nothing (as wish or preference) 1a) do not, let not (with a verb) 1b) let there not be (with a verb understood) 1c) not, no (with substantive) 1d) nothing (as substantive) Aramaic equivalent: al (אַל "not" H0409)
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a negative particle (akin to H3808 (לֹא)); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
KJV glosses: nay, neither, [phrase] never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| do not | 400 |
| and do not | 41 |
| not | 26 |
| no | 24 |
| be not | 11 |
| but do not | 11 |
| or | 11 |
| nor | 10 |
| never | 8 |
| and not | 7 |
| let no | 6 |
| do not let | 5 |
| let me not | 5 |
| let not | 5 |
| and never | 4 |
| must not | 4 |
| should not | 4 |
| vvv | 4 |
| you must not | 4 |
| he will not | 3 |
| let them not | 3 |
| no one | 3 |
| but never | 2 |
| cannot | 2 |
| do no | 2 |
| it is not | 2 |
| let me never | 2 |
| let no one | 2 |
| may it not | 2 |
| without | 2 |
| and allow no | 1 |
| and do not let them | 1 |
| and if you no | 1 |
| and let me not | 1 |
| and need not | 1 |
| and pay no | 1 |
| and refuse | 1 |
| and will not | 1 |
| and you must not | 1 |
| are not | 1 |
| avoid | 1 |
| away | 1 |
| but you should not | 1 |
| do not let me | 1 |
| does not | 1 |
| dont | 1 |
| i cannot | 1 |
| instead of | 1 |
| it never | 1 |
| let him not | 1 |
| let nothing | 1 |
| let there be no one | 1 |
| may he never | 1 |
| may it never | 1 |
| may no | 1 |
| may they not | 1 |
| neither | 1 |
| no more | 1 |
| nor should you | 1 |
| nothing back | 1 |
| overlook | 1 |
| pay no | 1 |
| place no | 1 |
| put not | 1 |
| shall never | 1 |
| shall take no | 1 |
| she must not | 1 |
| should pay no | 1 |
| show no | 1 |
| so do not | 1 |
| so that we will not | 1 |
| stop | 1 |
| than | 1 |
| then do not | 1 |
| there is no need | 1 |
| they do not | 1 |
| they must not | 1 |
| to | 1 |
| to no | 1 |
| to nothing | 1 |
| we should not | 1 |
| will no | 1 |
| will not | 1 |
| yet do not | 1 |
| you need not | 1 |
| you not | 1 |
| you should not | 1 |
| you will no | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| let me never | 2 |
| let none | 1 |
| no | 1 |
| nor | 1 |
| not | 1 |
| nothing | 1 |
| nothing worth | 1 |
| rather than | 1 |
| unto them nay | 1 |
| whither | 1 |
| with thee neither | 1 |
Page 4 of 12. 570 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
Read word by word“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
Read word by wordHer brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
Read word by word“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.
Read word by wordNow Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
Read word by wordBut Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
Read word by wordSo now, my lord the king, do not take to heart the report that all the sons of the king are dead. Only Amnon is dead.”
Read word by wordSo Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
Read word by wordThen the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
Read word by wordNow send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.’”
Read word by wordand said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.20
David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
Read word by wordNow therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You know what you ought to do to him to bring his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”
Read word by wordSo now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.
Read word by word“I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”
Read word by wordThen the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
Read word by wordMay the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us or forsake us.
Read word by wordbut you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”
Read word by word“Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,
Read word by wordThen Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.
Read word by wordAnd the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”
Read word by wordAnd the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”
Read word by wordThe king of Israel answered, “There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.
Read word by wordThen the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Do not be afraid of him.” So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.
Read word by wordWhen they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”
Read word by wordElisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
Read word by word“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow empty jars from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.
Read word by wordAnd Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
Read word by wordThen she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
Read word by word“Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
Read word by wordHe answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
Read word by wordbut King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”
Read word by wordNow, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
Read word by wordWhen he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.
Read word by wordAnd Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”
Read word by wordSo King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.8
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Read word by wordThis is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.
Read word by wordDo not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
Read word by wordDo not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
Read word by worduntil I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
Read word by wordwho replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
Read word by word“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Read word by word“Let him rest,” said Josiah. “Do not let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, along with those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
Read word by wordAnd Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”
Read word by word‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’
Read word by wordDavid answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
Read word by wordThen you will succeed, if you carefully follow the statutes and ordinances that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
Read word by wordDavid also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you before all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.
Read word by wordO LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”
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