H3808–לֹא–lo

then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.

וְלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of 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 face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him whence he was, neither did he tell me his name:

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

She may not eat of anything that comes 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”

The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I won't eat of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh. For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”לֹא־ lo'- “not”

But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.

וְלֹא־ (לֹא) lo'- “not”

But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

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

But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.

וְלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

but if you can't declare it to me, then shall you give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing. They said to him, Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

He said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, Out of the strong came forth sweetness. They couldn't in three days declare the riddle.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to impoverish us? is it not [supplied: so]?

הֲלֹֽא׃ (לֹֽא) Lo' “[is it] not [so]”

Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?

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

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? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, You wouldn't have found out my riddle.

לֹ֥א lo' “not”

But it happened 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 wouldn't allow him to go in.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.

הֲלֹ֨א (לֹ֨א) Lo' “not”

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

הֲלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

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

לֹ֚א lo' “In-”לֹ֣א lo' “not”

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

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

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

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. She said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

He said to her, If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”