H3808–לֹא–lo

Then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth, and was not able to say it in the right way; then they took him and put him to death at the crossing-places of Jordan; and at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites were put to death.

וְלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

And the angel of the Lord came to the woman, and said to her, See now! though you have never given birth to children, you will be with child and give birth to a son.

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

Then the woman came in, and said to her husband, A man came to me, and his form was like the form of a god, causing great fear; I put no question to him about where he came from, and he did not give me his name;

וְלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”

She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean; let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Though you keep me I will not take of your food; but if you will make a burned offering, let it be offered to the Lord. For it had not come into Manoah's mind that he was the angel of the Lord.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”לֹא־ lo'- “not”

But the angel of the Lord was seen no more by Manoah and his wife. Then it was clear to Manoah that he was the angel of the Lord.

וְלֹא־ (לֹא) lo'- “not”

But his wife said to him, If the Lord was purposing our death, he would not have taken our burned offering and our meal offering, or have given us such orders about the child.

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”לֹ֥א lo' “not”

Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And the spirit of the Lord came on him with power, and, unarmed as he was, pulling the lion in two as one might do to a young goat, he put him to death; (but he said nothing to his father and mother of what he had done.)

וְלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his father and mother he gave some to them; but did not say that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

But if you are not able to give me the answer, then you will have to give me thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing. And they said to him, Put your hard question and let us see what it is.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And he said, Out of the taker of food came food, and out of the strong came the sweet. And at the end of three days they were still not able to give the answer.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

So on the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, Get from your husband the answer to his question by some trick or other, or we will have you and your father's house burned with fire; did you get us here to take all we have?

הֲלֹֽא׃ (לֹֽא) Lo' “[is it] not [so]”

Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have put a hard question to the children of my people and have not given me the answer. And he said to her, See, I have not given the answer even to my father or

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”לֹ֣א lo' “not”לֹ֥א lo' “not”

Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not been ploughing with my cow you would not have got the answer

לֹ֥א lo' “not”

Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

And her father said, It seemed to me that you had only hate for her; so I gave her to your friend: but is not her younger sister fairer than she? so please take her in place of the other.

הֲלֹ֨א (לֹ֨א) Lo' “not”

Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to m

הֲלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.

לֹ֚א lo' “In-”לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And Samson said to her, If seven new bow-cords which have never been made dry are knotted round me, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

So the chiefs of the Philistines gave her seven new bow-cords which had never been made dry, and she had them tightly knotted round him.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

Now she had men waiting secretly in the inner room; and she said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And the cords were broken by him as a twist of thread is broken when touched by a flame. So the secret of his strength did not come to light.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

And he said to her, If they only put round me new thick cords which have never been used, then I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”