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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - אַל

אַל

H408

Transliteration: ʼal

Pronunciation: al

Definition: nay


Original: אל

Transliteration: 'al

Phonetic: al

BDB Definition:

  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)

Origin: a negative particle [akin to H3808" class="dictionary-topic-link">H3808]

TWOT entry: 90

Part(s) of speech:


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