אַל

al

Hebrew H0408 Negative 724 occurrences in 572 verses
אַל not

1. not, no, nor, neither, nothing (as wish or preference)

a. do not, let not (with a verb)

b. let there not be (with a verb understood)

c. not, no (with substantive)

d. nothing (as substantive)

Aramaic equivalent: al (אַל "not" H0409)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 572 verses

  1. Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”

  2. 2 Samuel 13:12 אַל־אַל־אַֽל־

    “No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not humiliate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!

  3. “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.

  4. Her 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.

  5. 2 Samuel 13:25 אַל־אַל־

    “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.

  6. Now 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!”

  7. But 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.

  8. So 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.”

  9. 2 Samuel 14:2 וְאַל־

    So 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.

  10. Then 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.

  11. Now 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.’”

  12. 2 Samuel 19:19 אַל־וְאַל־

    and 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.

  13. 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.”

  14. 1 Kings 2:9 אַל־

    Now 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.”

  15. 1 Kings 2:16 אַל־

    So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.

  16. 1 Kings 2:20 אַל־

    “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.”

  17. 1 Kings 3:26 אַל־

    Then 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!”

  18. 1 Kings 8:57 אַל־וְאַֽל־

    May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us nor forsake us.

  19. 1 Kings 13:22 אַל־וְאַל־

    but 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.’”

  20. 1 Kings 17:13 אַל־

    “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,

  21. 1 Kings 18:40 אַל־

    Then 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.

  22. 1 Kings 20:8 אַל־

    And the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”

  23. 1 Kings 20:11 אַל־

    And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”

  24. 1 Kings 22:8 אַל־

    The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man who can ask 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.

  25. 2 Kings 1:15 אַל־

    Then 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.

  26. 2 Kings 2:18 אַל־

    When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”

  27. 2 Kings 3:13 אַ֗ל

    Elisha, 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.”

  28. 2 Kings 4:3 אַל־

    “Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.

  29. 2 Kings 4:16 אַל־אַל־

    And 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.”

  30. 2 Kings 4:24 אַל־

    Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”

  31. 2 Kings 6:16 אַל־

    “Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

  32. 2 Kings 6:27 אַל־

    He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”

  33. 2 Kings 9:15 אַל־

    but 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.”

  34. 2 Kings 10:19 אַל־

    Now, 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.

  35. 2 Kings 10:25 אַל־

    When 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.

  36. 2 Kings 11:15 אַל־

    And 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.”

  37. 2 Kings 12:7 אַל־

    So 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.”

  38. 2 Kings 18:26 וְאַל־

    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.”

  39. 2 Kings 18:29 אַל־

    This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.

  40. 2 Kings 18:30 וְאַל־

    Do 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.’

  41. 2 Kings 18:31 אַֽל־

    Do 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,

  42. 2 Kings 18:32 וְאַֽל־

    until 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.’

  43. 2 Kings 19:6 אַל־

    who 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.

  44. 2 Kings 19:10 אַל־

    “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.

  45. 2 Kings 23:18 אַל־

    “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.

  46. 2 Kings 25:24 אַל־

    And 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.”

  47. 1 Chronicles 16:22 אַֽל־אַל־

    ‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’

  48. David 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.”

  49. 1 Chronicles 22:13 אַל־וְאַל־

    Then 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.

  50. 1 Chronicles 28:20 אַל־וְאַל־

    David 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.

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