Intet

nuth'-ing (lo', lo' @me'umah, etc.; medeis, oudeis): "Nothing" gengives ved forskellige ord og udtryk, ofte med lo', som egentlig er et substantiv med betydningen "intet". Hyppigst har vi lo' me'umah, "ikke noget" (1 Mos 40,15; Dom 14,6).

Andre former er lo' dhabhar, "ikke noget"; (1 Mos 19,8); lo'khol, "ikke nogen/ noget" (1 Mos 11,6; Ordsp 13,7); la' (aramæisk), "nej", "intet" (Dan 4,35, "som intet"); 'ephec, "ende", "ophør" (Es 34,12); bilti, "uden", "undtagen", "ikke" (Es 44,10; Am 3,4); 'ayin, "der er ikke" (Es 41,24); én gang, tohu, "tomhed" (Job 6,18); bal mah, "ikke noget" (Ordsp 9,13); chinnam, "fri", "gratis" (2 Sam 24,24); ma`at, "at gøre lille", "bringe til intet" (Jer 10,24); raq, "kun" (1 Mos 26,29); le'al, "for intet" (Job 24,25).

I 2 Macc 7,12 har vi "nothing" adverbielt (en oudeni), "han ænsede slet ikke smerterne" (sammenlign 1 Kong 15,21); 2 Macc 9,7 (oudamos), Revised Version (British and American) "på ingen måde"; The Wisdom of Solomon 2,11, "intet værd" (achrestos), Revised Version (British and American) "til ingen nytte"; Baruch 6,17.26.

For "nothing" har Revised Version (British and American) "none" (2 Mos 23,26; Joel 2,3), "never" (Neh 5,8), "not wherewith" (Ordsp 22,27), "vanity and nought" (Es 41,29); for "answered nothing" (Mark 15,5), "no more answered anything"; "answered nothing" i Mark 15,3 er udeladt; "anything" for "nothing" (1 Tim 6,7), "not anything" (ApG 20,20), "not" (1 Kor 8,2), "no word" (Luk 1,37), "not wherewith" (Luk 7,42); for "to nothing" (Job 6,18), "up into the waste"; for "it is nothing with" (2 Krøn 14,11), "there is none besides", randnote "like"; for "lacked nothing" (1 Kong 4,27), "let nothing be lacking", for "nothing doubting" (ApG 11,12), "making no distinction"; for "hoping for nothing again" (Luk 5,35), "never despairing"; for "are nothing" (ApG 21,24), "no truth in"; for "nothing shall offend them" (Sl 119,165), "no occasion of stumbling"; for "bring to nothing" (1 Kor 1,19), English Revised Version "reject", American Standard Revised Version "bring to nought"; "nothing better" for "no good" (Præd 3,12), for "not" (Matt 13,34, anden tekst), for "no man" (ApG 9,8), "for nothing", for "free" (2 Mos 21,11); "miss nothing" for "not sin" (Job 5,24), randnote "shalt not err"; "and shall have nothing" for "and not for himself" (Dan 9,26, randnote "there shall be none belonging to him").

W. L. Walker