Only if / except if / unless

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Only if / except if / unless

Only if / except if / unless

In literary usage: only. Or: except…

("And they said to him, ‘We cannot conceal from my master, only if the silver and the cattle come to my master, nothing remains before my master except if our bodies and our land’" – Genesis 47:18, the inhabitants of Egypt speaking to Joseph during the famine; and: "And his friend answered him, ‘This is only if Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel, wields a sword’" – Judges 7:14, a Midianite soldier to his companion; and: "Like a shadow he walked on the earth, nothing remained upon him only if his skin were on his corpse" – S.Y. Agnon / Bedami Yemayah)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בִּלְתִּי אִם, אֵין זֹאת בִּלְתִּי אִם

Definition (Hebrew)

בִּמְלִיצָה: אַךְ וְרַק. אוֹ: חוּץ מ...

("וַיֹּאמְרוּ לוֹ, לֹא נְכַחֵד מֵאֲדֹנִי כִּי אִם תַּם הַכֶּסֶף וּמִקְנֵה הַבְּהֵמָה אֶל אֲדֹנִי, לֹא נִשְׁאַר לִפְנֵי אֲדֹנִי בִּלְתִּי אִם גְּוִיָּתֵנוּ וְאַדְמָתֵנוּ"- בְּרֵאשִׁית מז יח (תּוֹשָׁבֵי מִצְרַיִם לְיוֹסֵף בַּזְּמַן הָרָעָב ), וְכֵן: "וַיַּעַן רֵעֵהוּ וַיֹּאמֶר אֵין זֹאת בִּלְתִּי אִם חֶרֶב גִּדְעוֹן בֶּן יוֹאָשׁ אִישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל"- שׁוֹפְטִים ז יָד (חַיָּל מִדַּיָּנִי לְרֵעֵהוּ), וְכֵן: "כְּצֵל יַהֲלֹךְ עַל הָאָרֶץ, לֹא נִשְׁאַר עָלָיו בִּלְתִּי אִם עוֹרוֹ עַל גְּוִיָּתוֹ"- שַׁ"י עַגְנוֹן/ בְּדָמִי יָמֶיהָ)

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