H3808–לֹא–lo

Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.

לֹ֤א lo' “not”וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

לֹא־ lo'- “not”הֲל֞וֹא (ל֞וֹא) Lo' “not”

Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise t

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”

Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

לֹ֥א lo' “not”

But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways

וְלֹא־ (לֹא) lo'- “not”לֹא־ lo'- “not”

And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.

לֹ֤א lo' “not”

For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.

לֹ֖א lo' “not”

Then it became clear to me that God had not sent him: he had given this word of a prophet against me himself: and Tobiah and Sanballat had given him money to do so.

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”

And I said to them, Do not let the doors of Jerusalem be open till the sun is high; and while the watchmen are in their places, let the doors be shut and locked: and let the people of Jerusalem be put on watch, every one in his watch, opposite his house.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

All these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but because they had no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain if they were Israelites:

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by the Urim and Thummim.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of

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

Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.

לֹ֥א lo' “not”לֹא־ lo'- “not”