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# אִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H336

**not** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

not [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/336/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִי⁴: adv. not [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/336/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. not (frequently in Rabb., as אִי אֶפְשַׁר impossible; and in Ethiopic the ordinary negative; cf. Ph. אי CISi. 3, 5 and in איבל 165, 18; 167, 11; Ass. ai) Jb 22:30 אִי־נָקִי the non-innocent read perhaps אֵל (Me), or אֱלֹהַּ (Ley), with וְתִמָּלֵט in v b.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: not (1).

## In the verses

[Job 22:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.30/#tree)

יְֽמַלֵּ֥טאִֽי־נָקִ֑י וְ֝נִמְלַ֗ט בְּבֹ֣ר כַּפֶּֽיךָ׃פ

*Word for word:* he.will.deliver not an.innocent.\[person\] and he.will.be.delivered by the.cleanness your.palms your

*JPS 1917:* He delivereth him that is innocent, yea, thou shalt be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/336.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/336/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).