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H0194אוּלַיu.lay
perhapsPart of speech: Hebrew Adverb
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45 occurrences in 44 verses
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And Sarai said unto Abram: 'Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall be builded up through her.' And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
אוּלַ֥י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
אוּלַ֥י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt Thou destroy all the city for lack of five?' And He said: 'I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.'
א֠וּלַי 'U.lai “perhaps”
And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall be forty found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it for the forty's sake.'
אוּלַ֛י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And he said: 'Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it, if I find thirty there.'
אוּלַ֛י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And he said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord. Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.'
אוּלַ֛י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And he said: 'Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure ten shall be found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.'
אוּלַ֛י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And the servant said unto him: 'Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land; must I needs bring thy son back unto the land from whence thou camest?'
אוּלַי֙ 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And I said unto my master: Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
אֻלַ֛י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a mocker; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.'
אוּלַ֤י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
and ye shall say: Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.' For he said: 'I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.'
אוּלַ֖י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
and take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry back in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight;
אוּלַ֥י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people: 'Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up unto the LORD, peradventure I shall make atonement for your sin.'
אוּלַ֥י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me; peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cur
אוּלַ֤י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
Behold the people that is come out of Egypt, it covereth the face of the earth; now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.'
אוּלַ֥י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times; unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive.'
אוּלַי֙ 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.' And he went to a bare height.
אוּלַ֞י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.'
אוּלַ֤י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites: 'Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?'
אוּלַ֗י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spoke in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified; it may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD spoke.'
אוּלַ֨י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel; peradventure He will lighten His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
אוּלַ֗י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And he said unto him: 'Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man that is held in honour; all that he saith cometh surely to pass; now let us go thither; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.'
אוּלַי֙ 'u.Lai “perhaps”
And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: 'Come and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will work for us; for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.'
אוּלַ֛י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy handmaid said: I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.
אוּלַ֛י 'u.Lai “perhaps”
It may be that the LORD will look on mine eye, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing of me this day.'
אוּלַ֛י 'u.Lai “perhaps”