לוּלֵא
lûwlêʼ · H3884 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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if not
Marker indicating that if the event in focus would not have been true another event would not haven taken place
ExamplesGenesis 31:42 “If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night.”
Genesis 43:10 “For if we had not delayed, surely by now we could have returned twice.”
Psalm 27:13 I certainly believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- εἰ ei · G1487 · if, since, because
- Greek εἰ (ei, G1487) ('if, whether, that') serves as the standard conditional marker translating Hebrew לוּלֵא in counter-factual and conditional-negative constructions, reflecting consistent Septuagint rendering practice across the semantic overlap of hypothetical and exceptive conditional clauses.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3884. luwle ' לוּלֵא Gen 43:10; Jdg 14:18; 2Sa 2:27; Psa 27:13, elsewhere לוּלֵי10 if…
' לוּלֵא Gen 43:10; Jdg 14:18; 2Sa 2:27; Psa 27:13, elsewhere לוּלֵי10 if not, unless (from לוּ if, and לֵא, by dissimilation (Köii. 236, 489) for לֹא not; compare Arabic ), the negative of לוּ, and used similarly: —
a. followed by perfect, Jdg 14:18 מצאתם לא ֗֗֗ חרשׁתם לולא unless ye had ploughed with my heifer, ye would not have found out my riddle, 1Sa 25:34 (second כי resumptive: כִּי 1d), Psa 106:23; with apod, introd. by עַתָּה כִּי Gen 31:42; Gen 43:10; by אָז 2Sa 2:27 (כי resumptive); by כִּמְעַט Isa 1:9; with an aposiop. Psa 27:13 if I had not believed ...!
b. followed by imperfect Deu 32:27 אגור לולי ֗֗֗ אמרתי I should have said, &c . . . . except I dreaded, &c.
c. followed by participle, 2Ki 3:14.
d. without a verb, Psa 94:17 (apodosis כמעט), Psa 119:92 (apodosis אָז). In the later language, Psa 124:1; Psa 124:2 -י ׳לוּלֵי שֶׁ (apodosis אֲזַי except that ... (compare Aramaic, Psa 106:23, דִּי ֗֗֗ אִילּוּלֵי Psa 27:13 ᵑ7). — Read also לוּלֵי for אוּלַי in Num 22:33 (apodosis עַתָּה כִּי). See further on לוּ and לוּלֵא Dr§§ 139-145 Köiii. 487f; 565.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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