H3863–לוּ–lu

And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

ל֥וּ lu “if”

and speaketh unto Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, `Only -- if thou wouldst hear me -- I have given the money of the field -- accept from me, and I bury my dead there.'

ל֖וּ lu “if”

And Laban saith, `Lo, O that it were according to thy word;'

ל֖וּ lu “if”

And the brethren of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, `Peradventure Joseph doth hate us, and doth certainly return to us all the evil which we did with him.'

ל֥וּ lu “if”

and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, `O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!

לוּ־ lu- “if”לוּ־ lu- “if”

and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, `And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!

וְל֥וּ (ל֥וּ) Lu “if”

and Balaam saith to the ass, `Because thou hast rolled thyself against me; oh that there were a sword in my hand, for now I had slain thee;'

ל֤וּ lu “if”

If they were wise -- They deal wisely `with' this; They attend to their latter end:

ל֥וּ lu “if”

And Joshua saith, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, why hast Thou at all caused this people to pass over the Jordan, to give us into the hand of the Amorite to destroy us? -- and oh that we had been willing -- and we dwell beyond the Jordan!

וְלוּ֙ (לוּ֙) Lu “if”

And he saith, `My brethren -- sons of my mother -- they; Jehovah liveth, if ye had kept them alive -- I had not slain you.'

ל֚וּ lu “if”

And his wife saith to him, `If Jehovah were desirous to put us to death, He had not received from our hands burnt-offering and present, nor shewed us all these things, nor as `at this' time caused us to hear `anything' like this.'

לוּ֩ lu “if”

How much more if the people had well eaten to-day of the spoil of its enemies which it hath found, for now, the smiting hath not been great among the Philistines.'

לוּא֩ lu' “<if>”

And the man saith unto Joab, `Yea, though I am weighing on my hand a thousand silverlings, I do not put forth my hand unto the son of the king; for in our ears hath the king charged thee, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Observe ye who `is' against the youth -- against Absalom;

וְל֨וּא (ל֨וּא) lo' “if”

to love thine enemies, and to hate those loving thee, for thou hast declared to-day that thou hast no princes and servants, for I have known to-day that if Absalom `were' alive, and all of us to-day dead, that then it were right in thine eyes.

ל֣וּ lo “if”

O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

ל֗וּ Lu “<if>”

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

ל֤וּ־ Lu- “if”

O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.

ל֗וּ Lu “if”

O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

ל֥וּא lu' “if”

Didst Thou not rend the heavens? Thou didst come down, From thy presence did mountains flow,

לוּא־ lu'- “if”

`If an evil beast I cause to pass through the land, and it hath bereaved, and it hath been a desolation, without any passing through because of the beast --

לֽוּ־ lu- “if”

If one is going `with' the wind, And `with' falsehood hath lied: `I prophesy to thee of wine, and of strong drink,' He hath been the prophet of this people!

לוּ־ lu- “if”