אין

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אֵין • (ʾēn)

1. yes

• לָא‎ (lā)

Compare Ugaritic 𐎛𐎐 (ỉn) and Arabic إِنْ‎ (ʔin).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)en/

אֵין • (ʾên)

1. There is not, there are not: used in expressing non-existence in the present tense.

   ‏אין אפשרות אחרת?‎‎ ― ʾên efšarút aḥéret? ― Is there no other option?

   ‏אין מקום בשביל זה.‎‎ ― ʾên maqóm bišĭḇíl-zé. ― There's no room [or not enough room] for it.

   • Popular Piyyut of unknown authorship:

     ‏אֵין אַדִּיר כַּאדֹנָי / וְאֵין בָּרוּךְ כְּבֶן עַמְרָם / אֵין גְּדוֹלָה כַּתּוֹרָה / וְאֵין דּוֹרְשָׁהּ כְּיִשְׂרָאֵל‎

     'ēn 'adír kadonái / v'éin barúkh k'vén 'amrám / 'ēn g'dolá katorá / v'ēn dor'sháh k'yisra'él

     There is no one powerful like the Lord / And there is no one blessed like the son of Amram / There is nothing great like the Torah / And there is no one professing it like Israel.

2. Used in expressing non-possession in the present tense.

   ‏אין לנו כרטיסים.‎‎ ― ēn lánu kartisím. ― We don't have tickets. [literally There are not to us tickets.]

   1. (colloquial) With a definite object.

      ‏אין לנו את הכרטיסים.‎‎ ― ēn lánu et hakartisím. ― We don't have the tickets.

3. (dated or formal) Not, is not, are not: a negative present-tense copula.
   1. Used uninflected, preceding the subject.
      • a. 10 B.C.E., Hillel the Elder, quoted in Pirkei Avot 1:14:

        ‏הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי. מִי לִי. וּכְשֶׁאֲנִי לְעַצְמִי. מָה אֲנִי. וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁיו. אֵימָתָי:‎‎

        hu haya omer im ein ani li, mi li, ukh'she'ani l'atzmi, ma ani, v'im lo akhshav, eimatai.

        He [Hillel] used to say, “If I am not for me, who is for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”

      • 1742, Chaim ibn Attar, אור החיים (or hakhayím), to Numbers 26:54, reprinted in, 1872, חמשה חומשי תורה, volume 4, Zhytomyr,  :

        ‏לאלה תחלק הארץ שהם באי הארץ ועדיין אין אני יודע אם דוקא להבאים לכלל עשרים או לכלל באי הארץ ואפי׳ לאותם שלא הגיעו לכלל עשרים‎

        "To these shall the land be divided", which are those who enter the land; but I still am not knowing if specifically to those who have entered the sum [age] of twenty or to the totality of those who enter the land, even those who have not reached the sum [age] of twenty

   2. With incorporated personal pronoun, preceding the predicate.
      • 1994, Yoram Taharlev (יורם טהרלב‎, lyricist), Dana International (singer), “ישנן בנות” (yeshnán banót, “Some Girls”, song), in Dana International, “אומפטמפה” (Umpatampa, album):

        ‏אבל אני איני כזאת \ אבל אני איני, איני כזאת \ עם מי שאין לי בטחון \ אנ'לא יוצאת גם לירקון.‎‎

        avál aní einí kazót / avál aní einí, einí kazót / im mi she'éin li bitakhón / anló yotsét gam layarkón.

        But I am not like that / but I am not, am not like that / with someone I don't have security with / I don't even go to Hayarkon.

• (there is not): לֹא הָיָה‎ (ló hāyā́) (verb)
• (expressing non-possession): לֹא הָיָה‎ (ló hāyā́) (verb)
• (not): לֹא‎ (ló) (adverb), לֹא הָיָה‎ (ló hāyā́) (verb)

• (there is not): יֵשׁ‎ (yēš) (particle), הָיָה‎ (hāyā́) (verb)
• (expressing non-possession): יֵשׁ‎ (yēš) (particle), הָיָה‎ (hāyā́) (verb)
• (is not): הינה / הִנֵּה‎ (hinḗ) (particle), הָיָה‎ (hāyā́) (verb)

• אֵין סוֹף‎ (ʾēn sṓp̄)
• אֵין קֵץ‎ (ʾēn kḗṣ)

• H369 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

אַיִן • (ʾáyin) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. nothing
2. (philosophy) nothingness

• יֵשׁ מֵאַיִן‎ (yēš meʾáyin)

• אני‎

אין (Hebrew spelling, Latin spelling en)

1. in
   • 1910, Ben Yitzhak Saserdoti, Refael i Miriam, page 3:

     ‏מילייארדאס די איסטרילייאס רילומבראבֿאן איינדה אין איל פירמאמינטו‎

     Milyardas de estrelyas relumbravan ainda en el firmamento

     Billions of stars were still shining in the firmament

From Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én.

• IPA^(key): [in]

אין • (in) (contracted dem-form אינעם‎ (inem) or אין (in))

1. in
2. into