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Ezra 3:13
“So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H369 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle
- Derivation
- as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist;
- KJV renderings
- else, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare H370 (אַיִן).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- אֵ֣ין — particle (negative)
- Usage
- Occurs 790 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:5Genesis 5:24Genesis 7:8Genesis 11:30Genesis 19:31
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 אַיִן here.
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.