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 the not-strength, strengthless, abstract noun for adj. (or to be resolved into לַֽאֲשֶׁר לֹא־כֹחַ לוֹ  ), Is. 5:14.

Rem. 2. The neg. אַל  with juss. &c., sometimes expresses merely the subjective feeling and sympathy of the speaker with the act. Is. 2:9 וְאַל־תִּשָּׂא לָהֶם  and thou canst not forgive them. Jer. 46:6, Ps. 41:3; 50:3; 121:3; 141:5, Job 5:22; 20:17, Pr. 3:25, Song 7:3, cf. the strong ex. Ps. 34:6. In strong deprecation with אַל  the verb is occasionally suppressed or deferred to a second clause, 2 S. 13:12 אַל־אָחִי   don’t! my brother, v. 25 אַל־בְּנִי   nay! my son. Gen. 19:18, Jud. 19:23, 2 S. 1:21, 2 K. 4:16, Ru. 1:13, Is. 62:6. In other cases the verb has to be supplied from the previous clause, Am. 5:14 seek good וְאֵל־רֵע  and not evil! Jo. 2:13, Pr. 8:10; 17:12. The word is used absolutely, in deprecation of something said, 2 K. 3:13, Gen. 33:10. — 2 K. 6:27 אַל־יֽוֹשִׁיעֵךְ י׳  perhaps, ''if Je. help thee not! For אל  1 S. 27:10 rd. אֶל־מִי   (Sep.) or אָן   whither?'' — In composition אל   is little used, Pr. 12:28 אַל־מָוֶת  not-death, immortality.

Rem. 3. The particle אין  frequently forms abbreviated circums. clauses, as אֵין מִסְפָּר  (there is) no number, without number, countless, § 140. In this sense לֹא  in poetry, 2 S. 23:4 בֹּקֶר לֹא חעבוֹת   a morning without clouds; Job 10:22 without order, 12:24; 38:26, Ps. 59:4; in prose, 1 Chr. 2:30, 32 לֹא בָנִים  childless. — Ps. 135:17 the stronger אֵין יֵשׁ , 1 S. 21:9, cf. Job 9:33. — From the semiverbal force of אין  a late writer can say אֵין אֶתְכֶם  , Hag. 2:17. In two passages, Jer. 38:5, Job 35:15, אין  seems used with finite verb. — A contracted form is אִי  in composition, 1 S. 4:21 אִי־כָבוֹר   not-glory, inglorious, Job 22:30 אִי־נָקִי   not innocent. This is the usual form of neg. in Eth. On אין ל  with inf. § 95.

Rem. 4. The form פֶּן־יֵשׁ  occurs owing to the verbal force of ישׁ  , Deu. 29:17, 2 K. 10:23. With perf. פֶּן  expresses what is feared may have happened, 2 K. 2:16; 10:23, 2 S. 20:6.

Rem. 5. In Poetry. בַּלּ  = לֹא   not, Hos. 7:2 וּבַל יֹאמְרוּ  and they say not. 9:16, Is. 14:21; 26:10, 11, 14, 18. Often with niph. of מוט , Ps. 10:6; 16:8; 21:8, &c. With inf.