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Lexicon entry · Hebrew

H3863לוּlu

ifPart of speech: Hebrew Interjection

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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

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22 occurrences in 21 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 17:18

    And Abraham said unto God: 'Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee!'

    ל֥וּ lu “if”

  2. Genesis 23:13

    And he spoke unto Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying: 'But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.'

    ל֖וּ lu “if”

  3. Genesis 30:34

    And Laban said: 'Behold, would it might be according to thy word.'

    ל֖וּ lu “if”

  4. Genesis 50:15

    And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: 'It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.'

    ל֥וּ lu “if”

  5. Numbers 14:2

    And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them: 'Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would we had died in this wilderness!

    לוּ־ lu- “if”לוּ־ lu- “if”

  6. Numbers 20:3

    And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD!

    וְל֥וּ (ל֥וּ) Lu “if”

  7. Numbers 22:29

    And Balaam said unto the ass: 'Because thou hast mocked me; I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed thee.'

    ל֤וּ lu “if”

  8. Deuteronomy 32:29

    If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end.

    ל֥וּ lu “if”

  9. Joshua 7:7

    And Joshua said: 'Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast Thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!

    וְלוּ֙ (לוּ֙) Lu “if”

  10. Judges 8:19

    And he said: 'They were my brethren, the sons of my mother; as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.'

    ל֚וּ lu “if”

  11. Judges 13:23

    But his wife said unto him: 'If the LORD were pleased to kill us, He would not 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.'

    לוּ֩ lu “if”

  12. 1 Samuel 14:30

    How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? had there not been then a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?'

    לוּא֩ lu' “<if>”

  13. 2 Samuel 18:12

    And the man said unto Joab: 'Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying: Beware that none touch the youn

    וְל֨וּא (ל֨וּא) lo' “if”

  14. 2 Samuel 19:7

    in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee. For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nought unto thee; for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had

    ל֣וּ lo “if”

  15. Job 6:2

    Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!

    ל֗וּ Lu “<if>”

  16. Job 16:4

    I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

    ל֤וּ־ Lu- “if”

  17. Psalms 81:14

    Oh that My people would hearken unto Me, that Israel would walk in My ways!

    ל֗וּ Lu “if”

  18. Isaiah 48:18

    Oh that thou wouldest hearken to My commandments! then would thy peace be as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea;

    ל֥וּא lu' “if”

  19. Isaiah 63:19

    We are become as they over whom Thou never borest rule, as they that were not called by Thy name. Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence,

    לוּא־ lu'- “if”

  20. Ezekiel 14:15

    If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they bereave it, and it be desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;

    לֽוּ־ lu- “if”

  21. Micah 2:11

    If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie: 'I will preach unto thee of wine and of strong drink'; he shall even be the preacher of this people.

    לוּ־ lu- “if”