Topic
Nothing
47 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 11:6ISBE
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
- Genesis 19:8ISBE
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
- Genesis 26:29ISBE
That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
- Genesis 40:15ISBE
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
- Exodus 21:11ISBE
And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
- Exodus 23:26ISBE
¶ There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- Judges 14:6ISBE
And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
- 2 Samuel 24:24ISBE
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
- 1 Kings 4:27ISBE
And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.
- 1 Kings 15:21ISBE
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
- 2 Chronicles 14:11ISBE
And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God;…
- Nehemiah 5:8ISBE
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
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- Job 5:24 ISBE
- Job 6:18 ISBE
- Job 24:25 ISBE
- Psalms 119:165 ISBE
- Proverbs 9:13 ISBE
- Proverbs 13:7 ISBE
- Proverbs 22:27 ISBE
- Ecclesiastes 3:12 ISBE
- Isaiah 34:12 ISBE
- Isaiah 41:24 ISBE
- Isaiah 41:29 ISBE
- Isaiah 44:10 ISBE
- Jeremiah 10:24 ISBE
- Daniel 4:35 ISBE
- Daniel 9:26 ISBE
- Joel 2:3 ISBE
- Amos 3:4 ISBE
- Wisdom of Solomon 2:11 ISBE
- Baruch 6:17 ISBE
- Baruch 6:26 ISBE
- 2 Maccabees 7:12 ISBE
- 2 Maccabees 9:7 ISBE
- Matthew 13:34 ISBE
- Mark 15:3 ISBE
- Mark 15:5 ISBE
- Luke 1:37 ISBE
- Luke 5:35 ISBE
- Luke 7:42 ISBE
- Acts 9:8 ISBE
- Acts 11:12 ISBE
- Acts 20:20 ISBE
- Acts 21:24 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 1:19 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 8:2 ISBE
- 1 Timothy 6:7 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 48 references
nuth'-ing (lo', lo' @me'umah, etc.; medeis, oudeis): "Nothing" is represented by various words and phrases, often with lo', which is properly a substantive with the meaning of "nothing." Most frequently we have lo' me'umah, "not anything" (Ge 40:15; Jud 14:6).
Other forms are lo' dhabhar, "not anything"; (Ge 19:8); lo'khol, "not any(thing)" (Ge 11:6; Pr 13:7); la' (Aramaic), "no," "nothing" (Da 4:35, "as nothing"); 'ephec, "end," "cessation" (Isa 34:12); bilti, "without," "save," "not" (Isa 44:10; Am 3:4); 'ayin, "there is not" (Isa 41:24); once, tohu, "emptiness" (Job 6:18); bal mah, "not anything" (Pr 9:13); chinnam, "free," "gratis" (2Sa 24:24); ma`at, "to make small," "bring to nothing" (Jer 10:24); raq, "only" (Ge 26:29); le'al, "for nothing" (Job 24:25).
In 2 Macc 7:12, we have "nothing," adverbially (en oudeni), "he nothing regarded the pains" (compare 1Ki 15:21); 2 Macc 9:7 (oudamos), the Revised Version (British and American) "in no wise"; The Wisdom of Solomon 2:11, "nothing worth" (achrestos), the Revised Version (British and American) "of no service"; Baruch 6:17,26.
For "nothing" the Revised Version (British and American) has "none" (Ex 23:26; Joe 2:3), "never" (Ne 5:8), "not wherewith" (Pr 22:27), "vanity and nought" (Isa 41:29); for "answered nothing" (Mr 15:5), "no more answered anything"; "answered nothing" in Mr 15:3 is omitted; "anything" for "nothing" (1Ti 6:7), "not anything" (Ac 20:20), "not" (1Co 8:2), "no word" (Lu 1:37), "not wherewith" (Lu 7:42); for "to nothing" (Job 6:18), "up into the waste"; for "it is nothing with" (2Ch 14:11), "there is none besides," margin "like"; for "lacked nothing" (1Ki 4:27), "let nothing be lacking," for "nothing doubting" (Ac 11:12), "making no distinction"; for "hoping for nothing again" (Lu 5:35), "never despairing"; for "are nothing" (Ac 21:24), "no truth in"; for "nothing shall offend them" (Ps 119:165), "no occasion of stumbling"; for "bring to nothing" (1Co 1:19), the English Revised Version "reject," the American Standard Revised Version "bring to nought"; "nothing better" for "no good" (Ec 3:12), for "not" (Mt 13:34, different text), for "no man" (Ac 9:8), "for nothing," for "free" (Ex 21:11); "miss nothing" for "not sin" (Job 5:24), margin "shalt not err"; "and shall have nothing" for "and not for himself" (Da 9:26, margin "there shall be none belonging to him").
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.