Skip to content
Bible Study

Lexicon entry · Hebrew

H3863לוּlu

ifPart of speech: Hebrew Interjection

Lexicon
From STEPBible's TBESH (CC BY 4.0)

Occurrences by book

  1. 4
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 4
  5. 1
  6. 1
  7. 2
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1
  10. 2
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 2
  19. 1
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 2
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 1
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 1
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

Renderings

Bible in Basic English is not aligned yet, so there are no renderings to show.

22 occurrences in 21 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. Genesis 17:18

    And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

    ל֥וּ lu “if”

  2. Genesis 23:13

    And Abraham said to Ephron, in the hearing of the people of the land, If only you will give ear to me, I will give you the price of the field; take it, and let me put my dead to rest there.

    ל֖וּ lu “if”

  3. Genesis 30:34

    And Laban said, Let it be as you say.

    ל֖וּ lu “if”

  4. Genesis 50:15

    Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

    ל֥וּ lu “if”

  5. Numbers 14:2

    And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

    לוּ־ lu- “if”לוּ־ lu- “if”

  6. Numbers 20:3

    And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

    וְל֥וּ (ל֥וּ) Lu “if”

  7. Numbers 22:29

    And Balaam said to the ass, You have made me seem foolish: if only I had a sword in my hand I would put you to death.

    ל֤וּ lu “if”

  8. Deuteronomy 32:29

    If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!

    ל֥וּ lu “if”

  9. Joshua 7:7

    And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan!

    וְלוּ֙ (לוּ֙) Lu “if”

  10. Judges 8:19

    And he said, They were my brothers, my mother's sons: by the life of the Lord, if you had kept them safe, I would not put you to death.

    ל֚וּ lu “if”

  11. Judges 13:23

    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.

    לוּ֩ lu “if”

  12. 1 Samuel 14:30

    How much more if the people had freely taken their food from the goods of those who were fighting against them! would there not have been much greater destruction among the Philistines?

    לוּא֩ lu' “<if>”

  13. 2 Samuel 18:12

    And the man said to Joab, Even if you gave me a thousand bits of silver, I would not put out my hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king gave orders to you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Take care that the young man Absalom is not touched

    וְל֨וּא (ל֨וּא) lo' “if”

  14. 2 Samuel 19:6

    For your haters, it seems, are dear to you, and your friends are hated. For you have made it clear that captains and servants are nothing to you: and now I see that if Absalom was living and we had all been dead today, it would have been right in your ey

    ל֣וּ lo “if”

  15. Job 6:2

    If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

    ל֗וּ Lu “<if>”

  16. Job 16:4

    It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

    ל֤וּ־ Lu- “if”

  17. Psalms 81:13

    If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

    ל֗וּ Lu “if”

  18. Isaiah 48:18

    If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

    ל֥וּא lu' “if”

  19. Isaiah 63:19

    We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.

    לוּא־ lu'- “if”

  20. Ezekiel 14:15

    Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:

    לֽוּ־ lu- “if”

  21. Micah 2:11

    If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.

    לוּ־ lu- “if”