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לֹא

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hebrewOld TestamentNegative5,187 occurrences39 books3,967 verses

Definition

or לוֹא; or לֹה; (Deuteronomy 3:11), a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
Traditional renderings: × before, or else, ere, except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (× as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, surely, as truly as, of a truth, verily, for want, whether, without.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders לֹא:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

5,187 total
  1. Deuteronomy 2:30וְלֹ֣א · not
    But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
  2. Deuteronomy 2:34לֹ֥א · no
    At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.
  3. Deuteronomy 2:36לֹ֤א · not one
    From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
  4. Deuteronomy 2:37לֹ֣א · you did not
    But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.
  5. Deuteronomy 3:4לֹ֤א · There was not; לֹא־ · we failed to
    At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
  6. Deuteronomy 3:11הֲלֹ֣ה · [is still]
    (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
  7. Deuteronomy 3:22לֹ֖א · Do not
    Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God Himself will fight for you.”
  8. Deuteronomy 3:26וְלֹ֥א · and He would not
    But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.
  9. Deuteronomy 3:27לֹ֥א · you will not
    Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
  10. Deuteronomy 4:2לֹ֣א · You must not; וְלֹ֥א
    You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
  11. Deuteronomy 4:15לֹ֤א · no
    So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful
  12. Deuteronomy 4:26לֹֽא־ · You will not
    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
  13. Deuteronomy 4:28לֹֽא־ · cannot; וְלֹ֣א · [or]; וְלֹ֥א · [or]; וְלֹ֥א · [or]
    And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
  14. Deuteronomy 4:31לֹ֥א · He will not; וְלֹ֣א · [or]; וְלֹ֤א · [or]
    For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.
  15. Deuteronomy 4:42לֹא־ · without
    …to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
  16. Deuteronomy 5:3לֹ֣א · did not
    He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
  17. Deuteronomy 5:5וְלֹֽא־ · and would not
    At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:
  18. Deuteronomy 5:7לֹ֣א · no
    You shall have no other gods before Me.
  19. Deuteronomy 5:8לֹֽ֣א־ · {You shall} not
    You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
  20. Deuteronomy 5:9לֹא־ · You shall not; וְלֹ֣א
    You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  21. Deuteronomy 5:11לֹ֥א · You shall not; לֹ֤א · will not
    You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
  22. Deuteronomy 5:14לֹ֣א · on which you must not
    …but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
  23. Deuteronomy 5:17לֹ֥֖א · You shall not
    You shall not murder.
  24. Deuteronomy 5:18וְלֹ֖֣א · You shall not
    You shall not commit adultery.
  25. Deuteronomy 5:19וְלֹ֖֣א · You shall not
    You shall not steal.
  26. Deuteronomy 5:20וְלֹֽא־ · You shall not
    You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  27. Deuteronomy 5:21וְלֹ֥א · You shall not; וְלֹ֨א
    You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
  28. Deuteronomy 5:22וְלֹ֣א · nothing more
    The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
  29. Deuteronomy 5:32לֹ֥א · you are not
    So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
  30. Deuteronomy 6:10לֹא־ · you did not
    And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
  31. Deuteronomy 6:11לֹא־ · you did not; לֹא־ · you did not; לֹא־ · you did not
    …with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
  32. Deuteronomy 6:14לֹ֣א · Do not
    Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
  33. Deuteronomy 6:16לֹ֣א · Do not
    Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
  34. Deuteronomy 7:2לֹא־ · no; וְלֹ֥א · and show them no
    …and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
  35. Deuteronomy 7:3וְלֹ֥א · Do not; לֹא־ · Do not; לֹא־ · or
    Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,