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# זוּלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2108

**removal** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

removal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2108/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זוּלָה: removal prep. conj. except, only, save that prep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2108/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] proposes removal, only found in the st. c. as prep. and conj. except, only, save that—cstr. זוּלַת 2 K 24:14 and (with the obsolete case-ending ִי) זוּלָתִי Dt 1:36; 4:12 Jos 11:13 1 K 3:18; 12:20 ψ 18:32; with sf. זוּלָתִי Ho 13:4 Is 45:5, 21, זוּלָֽתְךָ, זוּלָתֶ֑ךָ 2 S 7:22 = 1 Ch 17:20 Is 26:13; 64:3 Ru 4:4, זוּלָתָהּ 1 S 21:10;— prep. except, besides, lit. with removal of … (syn. מִבַּלְעֲדֵי ψ 18:32 Is 45:21; בִּלְתִּי Ho 13:4; and cf. Dt 1:36 with Nu 32:12), Dt 1:36 זולתי כלב with the exception of Caleb, 1 S 21:10 אֵין אַחֶרֶת זוּלָתָהּ there is none other except it, 1 K 12:20 2 K 24:14 Ru 4:4: often in such phrases as, There is no God (or, Who is God?) except me (or thee), 2 S 7:22 18:32 Ho 13:4 Is 45:5, 21; 64:3. Always after a neg. or qu., except Is 26:13 אדנים זולתך lords other than thou. Connected inexactly with what precedes, ז׳ acquires the force of only, Dt 4:12 ye saw no form זוּלָתִי קוֹל save a voice = (there was) only a voice, 1 K 3:18. conj. Jos 11:13 except that he burnt Hazor alone.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: except (12); besides (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 18:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.32/#tree)

כִּ֤י מִ֣י אֱ֭לוֹהַּ מִבַּלְעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וּמִ֥י צ֝֗וּר זוּלָתִ֥י אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) who? \[is\].God (from) except Yahweh and who? \[is\].a.rock except except God our

*JPS 1917:* For who is God, save the LORD? And who is a Rock, except our God?

[Isaiah 26:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.13/#tree)

יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ בְּעָל֥וּנוּ אֲדֹנִ֖ים זֽוּלָתֶ֑ךָ לְבַד־בְּךָ֖ נַזְכִּ֥יר שְׁמֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* O.Yahweh God our they have.ruled.over.us lords except you only in you we.bring.to.remembrance name your

*JPS 1917:* O LORD our God, other lords beside Thee have had dominion over us; but by Thee only do we make mention of Thy name.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2108.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2108/): 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).