H3808–לֹא–lo

Then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan. And there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

וְלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bore not.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold, now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

For lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from his birth: and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither did he tell me his name:

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

She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Though thou shouldst detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering, thou must offer it to the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”לֹא־ lo'- “not”

But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.

וְלֹא־ (לֹא) lo'- “not”

But his wife said to him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meat-offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would, as at this time, have told us such things as these.

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

But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

וְלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

And he took of it in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they ate: but he told them not that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

But if ye cannot declare it to me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said to him, propose thy riddle, that we may hear it.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And he said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take what we possess? is it not so?

הֲלֹֽא׃ (לֹֽא) Lo' “[is it] not [so]”

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast proposed a riddle to the children of my people, and hast not told it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told it to my father nor to my mother, and shall I tell it to thee?

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

And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

לֹ֥א lo' “not”

But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

הֲלֹ֨א (לֹ֨א) Lo' “not”

Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

הֲלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

לֹ֚א lo' “In-”לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green withs, that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

Then the lords of the Philistines brought to her seven green withs, which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

(Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber.) And she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the withs as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

And he said to her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were used, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”