Definition
as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle
Traditional 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.
Traditional 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.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אַ֫יִן:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
788 total
- Jeremiah 4:23וְאֵ֥ין · and they [had] noI looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
- Jeremiah 4:25אֵ֣ין · and noI looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.
- Jeremiah 4:29וְאֵין־ · noEvery city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
- Jeremiah 5:13אֵ֣ין · [is] notThe prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”
- Jeremiah 5:21וְאֵ֣ין · and senseless“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
- Jeremiah 6:14וְאֵ֖ין · when there is noThey dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- Jeremiah 7:16אֵינֶ֥נִּי · I will notAs for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
- Jeremiah 7:17הַֽאֵינְךָ֣ · Do you notDo you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
- Jeremiah 7:32מֵאֵ֥ין · until there is noSo behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
- Jeremiah 7:33וְאֵ֖ין · and there will be no oneThe corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
- Jeremiah 8:6אֵ֣ין · NoI have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
- Jeremiah 8:11וְאֵ֖ין · when there is noThey dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- Jeremiah 8:13אֵין֩ · There will be no; וְאֵ֧ין · norI will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
- Jeremiah 8:15וְאֵ֣ין · but noWe hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 8:17אֵין־ · cannot“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 8:19אֵ֣ין · no; אֵ֣ין · no longerListen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
- Jeremiah 8:22אֵ֣ין · Is there no; אֵ֣ין · Is noIs there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
- Jeremiah 9:22וְאֵ֥ין · with noDeclare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
- Jeremiah 10:5אֵ֥ין · neither can theyLike scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
- Jeremiah 10:6מֵאֵ֥ין · There is noneThere is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
- Jeremiah 10:7מֵאֵ֥ין · there is noneWho would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.
- Jeremiah 10:20וְאֵינָ֔ם · and are no more; אֵין־ · I have no oneMy tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
- Jeremiah 11:14אֵינֶ֣נִּי · I will notAs for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
- Jeremiah 12:11אֵ֥ין · noThey have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
- Jeremiah 12:12אֵ֥ין · NoOver all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
- Jeremiah 13:19וְאֵ֣ין · and no oneThe cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.
- Jeremiah 14:6אֵ֥ין · lackWild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
- Jeremiah 14:12אֵינֶ֤נִּי · I will not; אֵינֶ֣נִּי · I will notAlthough they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
- Jeremiah 14:16וְאֵ֤ין · There will be noAnd the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
- Jeremiah 14:19וְאֵ֥ין · so that we are beyond; וְאֵ֣ין · but noHave You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 15:1אֵ֥ין · would notThen the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
- Jeremiah 16:19וְאֵֽין־ · of noO LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
- Jeremiah 19:11מֵאֵ֥ין · until there is no more…and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
- Jeremiah 21:12וְאֵ֣ין · with no oneO house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
- Jeremiah 22:17אֵ֤ין · [are set on] nothing“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
- Jeremiah 22:28אֵ֥ין · that noIs this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
- Jeremiah 26:9מֵאֵ֣יןHow dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 26:16אֵין־ · [is] notThen the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”
- Jeremiah 30:5וְאֵ֥ין · notYes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.
- Jeremiah 30:7מֵאַ֣יִן · None will beHow awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.
- Jeremiah 30:10וְאֵ֥ין · with no oneAs for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
- Jeremiah 30:13אֵֽין־ · [There is] no one; אֵ֥ין · noThere is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
- Jeremiah 30:17אֵ֥ין · no oneBut I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”