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Strong's H1077 בַּל (bal)

Bal means “lest” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1077 — genesia (“birthday”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1077
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 54
Books 6

Strong's H1077 Quick Answer

Strong's H1077 בַּל (bal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. bal (bal) adv. 1. (properly) a failure 2. (by implication) nothing It has 54 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include all, also, neither, any, and nothing. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
bal (bal) adv. 1. (properly) a failure 2. (by implication) nothing
Usage
54 linked usages
Books
6 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
all, also, neither, any, and nothing

Meaning and Definition

bal (bal) adv. 1. (properly) a failure 2. (by implication) nothing 3. (usually, adverb) not at all 4. (also) lest [from H1086] KJV: lest, neither, no, none (that...), not (any), nothing. Root(s): H1086

Original Word
בַּל
Transliteration
bal
Derivation
Root: בלה First root strongs: 1086
Morphology
adverb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1077. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H1077 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

all 1 Chronicles 16:30 also Psalms 93:1 neither Isaiah 26:18 any Psalms 141:4 nothing Psalms 17:3 lest Psalms 32:9 none Psalms 10:15

How Strong's H1077 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 54 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1077 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1077 in the Old Testament

54 indexed usages in Old Testament.

1 Chronicles 16:30 KJV

Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

Job 41:23 KJV

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

Psalms 10:4 KJV

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Usage Excerpts

First 54 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1077.

1 Chronicles 16:30 Old Testament, KJV
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
Job 41:23 Old Testament, KJV
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
Psalms 10:4 Old Testament, KJV
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 10:6 Old Testament, KJV
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
Psalms 10:11 Old Testament, KJV
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psalms 10:15 Old Testament, KJV
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Psalms 10:18 Old Testament, KJV
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalms 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
Psalms 16:4 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 16:8 Old Testament, KJV
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Psalms 17:3 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 17:5 Old Testament, KJV
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Psalms 21:2 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
Psalms 21:7 Old Testament, KJV
For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
Psalms 21:11 Old Testament, KJV
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Psalms 30:6 Old Testament, KJV
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
Psalms 32:9 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 46:5 Old Testament, KJV
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
Psalms 49:12 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms 58:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 78:44 Old Testament, KJV
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
Psalms 93:1 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 96:10 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 104:5 Old Testament, KJV
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Psalms 104:9 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms 119:121 Old Testament, KJV
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
Psalms 140:10 Old Testament, KJV
Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Psalms 140:11 Old Testament, KJV
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Psalms 141:4 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 147:20 Old Testament, KJV
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Proverbs 9:13 Old Testament, KJV
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Proverbs 10:30 Old Testament, KJV
The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Proverbs 12:3 Old Testament, KJV
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Proverbs 14:7 Old Testament, KJV
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
Proverbs 19:23 Old Testament, KJV
The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
Proverbs 22:29 Old Testament, KJV
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Proverbs 23:7 Old Testament, KJV
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Proverbs 23:35 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Proverbs 24:23 Old Testament, KJV
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Isaiah 14:21 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 26:10 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 26:11 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 26:14 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 26:18 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 33:20 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 33:21 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 33:23 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 33:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 35:9 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Isaiah 40:24 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 43:17 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 44:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 44:9 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Hosea 7:2 Old Testament, KJV
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.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1077, grouped by book.

1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 28 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 9 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 14 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1077 FAQ

What does bal (בַּל) mean?

Bal (Strong's H1077) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "lest". bal (bal) adv. 1. (properly) a failure 2. (by implication) nothing

How many times is bal (בַּל) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 54 linked usages for Strong's H1077 across 6 books.

Where can I study bal (בַּל) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1077 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate bal (בַּל)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as all, also, neither, any, nothing, and none. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.