בְּלִי

With prepositions
\ \ a. בִּבְלִי, in בִּבְלִי דַעַת 5 Mos 4,42; 5 Mos 19,4; Jos 20,3; Jos 20,5 D (= unawares: all in D's law of homicide); without knowledge Job 35,16; Job 36,12.
\ \ b. לִבְלִי in a state of (see below לְ) no..., i.e. without,Es 5,14 לִבְלִיחֹֿק regardless of, without measure, Job 38,41; Job 41,25 that is made לִבְלִיחֵֿת (to be) in a state of no fear, i.e. to be fearless.
\ \ c. מִבְּלִי
\ \ \ (a) from want of, followed by a substantive or infin., מִן expressing causation, 5 Mos 9,28 ׳מִבְּלִי יְכֹלֶת י on account of Jehovah's not being able... (in 4 Mos 14,16 מִבִּלְתִּי), 4 Mos 28,55 (Ew^{238 d}; but also RS^{JPh xvi. 72}), Es 5,13 for want of knowledge, Hos 4,6; Ezk 34,5; Klg 1,4 מִבְּלִי בָּאֵי מוֺעֵד for lack of comers to the stated feast. Followed by a pleonastic אֵין in the phrase הֲמִבְּלִי אֵין ֗֗֗ is it on account of there being no...? (literally is it from the deficiency of no...? compare in Syriac; PS⁵²⁸), 2 Mos 14,11; 2 Kong 1,3; 2 Kong 1,6; 2 Kong 1,16. (β) so that there is no... (literally away from there being no..., מִן expressing negation, and בְּלִי being pleonastic, as in מֵאֵין, see below אַיִן 6 d β); Jer 2,15 its cities are burnt מִבְּלִי יוֺשֵׁב so that there is no inhabitant, Jer 9,9–11; Ezk 14,15; Sef 3,6. Once as a conjunction מִבְּלִי אֲשֶׁר, with pleonastic לֹא, so that not... Praed 3,11. In Job מִבְּלִי is used more freely = without, the connection with a preceding verb being no longer distinctly felt: Job 4,20 without any heeding, they perish for ever, Job 6,6; Job 24,7; Job 24,8 probably also Job 4,11; Job 31,19 (though here the sense (α) would be admissible). (γ) in Job 18,15 תִּשְׁכּוֺן בְּאָהֳלוֺ מִבְּלִילֿוֺ, מִן is probably partitive (so Hi): there shall dwell in his tent what is naught of his: Ew^{§ 323a} De less probably even naught, compare below אַיִן 6 d γ; Ges 'terror (supplied from vJob 18,14) shall dwell in his tent so that it is no more his.'
\ \ d. עַדבְּֿלִי till there be no... Sl 72,7; Mal 3,10.