bilade · except

What it means

bilade (בִּלְעֲדֵי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “except”.

Besides, apart from.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Except: "there is no God but me".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• besides me ×5
• besides ×4
• it without ×2
• without ×2
• It is not in me ×1
• Nothing for me ×1
• other than ×1
• what is beyond ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 14:24

  Nothing for me; only what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their share.”

• Genesis 41:16

  Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; Elohim will answer with peace for Pharaoh.”

• Genesis 41:44

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you no one will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

• Numbers 5:20

  But if you, have gone astray while under the authority of your husband, and if you have made yourself unclean, and a man other than your husband has lain with you—’

• Joshua 22:19

  But if the land of your possession is unclean, cross over to the land of the possession of YHWH, where the dwelling of YHWH dwells, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against YHWH, and do not rebel against us by building yourselves an altar besides the altar of YHWH our Elohim.

• 2 Samuel 22:32

  For who is El besides YHWH? And who is a Rock besides our Elohim?

• 2 Kings 18:25

  Now, is it without YHWH that I have come up against this place to destroy it? YHWH said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”

• Job 34:32

  what is beyond what I see, you teach me; if injustice I have done, I will not do it again’?

• Psalms 18:31

  For who is Eloah besides YHWH? And who is a Rock except our Elohim?

• Isaiah 36:10

  Now, is it without YHWH that I have come up against this land to destroy it? YHWH said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”

• Isaiah 43:11

  I, I am YHWH, and besides me there is no savior.

• Isaiah 44:6

  Thus says YHWH, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, YHWH Tsevaot: “I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no Elohim.

• Isaiah 44:8

  Do not be in dread, and do not be afraid; have I not long ago made you hear and declared it? And you are my witnesses. Is there an Eloah besides me? There is no Rock; I know none.”

• Isaiah 45:6

  so that they may know from the rising of the sun and from its west that there is nothing besides me; I am YHWH, and there is no other;

• Isaiah 45:21

  Declare, and bring it forward; indeed, let them take counsel together. Who has made this heard from of old, who declared it long ago? Was it not I, YHWH? And there is no other Elohim besides me, a righteous El and Savior; there is none besides me.

• Jeremiah 44:19

  “And when we burn incense to the queen of the heavens and pour out libations to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her cakes to make her image and poured out libations to her?”

And 1 more times.