Strong's Hebrew · H369
H369 ʼayin
אַיִן
ah'-yin
nothing
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ʼayin appears 787 times in Scripture, including Genesis 2:5 and Genesis 5:24. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle
In the King James Version
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).
Derivation
as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist;
Appears 787 times in Scripture
“Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all who belong to you.””
“Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’”
“Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.”
“Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.”
“The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground”
“One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.”
“We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’”
“But we answered, ‘We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.’”
“But Sarai was barren; she had no children.”
“When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
