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2 Chronicles 30:7

“And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

אַלʼal · al
H408 · Hebrew

Definition: not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
Derivation: a negative particle (akin to H3808 (לֹא));
KJV renderings: nay, neither, [phrase] never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.
Grammar: וְ — conjunction
אַל — particle (negative)
Code HC/Tn
Usage: Occurs 725 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 13:8 Genesis 15:1 Genesis 18:3 Genesis 18:30 Genesis 18:32

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אַל here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.