al marks negative prohibitions, pleas, and wishes in clauses that tell someone not to act or ask that something not happen.

Across the supplied verses, al is a negative particle in directives and appeals: it marks instructions not to do something, requests that an event not occur, and wishes that a person or outcome be kept from a stated action or condition.

1. Negative particle in prohibitions and appeals · dominant

   The supplied forms are tagged Particle · Negative and occur in clauses that prohibit or resist an action or outcome. In 1 Kings 20:8 the APB renders the response, “Do not listen, and do not consent”; in 1 Samuel 16:7 it renders the instruction, “Do not look on his appearance”; and in 1 Chronicles 21:13 it renders David’s plea, “do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

   1 Kings 20:81 Samuel 16:71 Chronicles 21:131 Samuel 26:92 Chronicles 20:152 Chronicles 30:7

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB commonly expresses the negative particle with “Do not,” but also uses forms such as “let not,” “must not,” and “may he not.” Because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, these renderings show the clauses’ negative force rather than a fixed English equivalent in every instance.