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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 20:8וְלֹ֥א · will not
    Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
  2. Deuteronomy 20:12לֹ֤א · they refuse
    But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
  3. Deuteronomy 20:15לֹא־ · and do not
    This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
  4. Deuteronomy 20:16לֹ֥א
    However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
  5. Deuteronomy 20:18לֹֽא־ · they cannot
    …so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
  6. Deuteronomy 20:19לֹֽא־ · you must not; לֹ֣א · You must not
    When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
  7. Deuteronomy 20:20לֹא־ · do not
    But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
  8. Deuteronomy 21:1לֹ֥א · and it is not
    If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
  9. Deuteronomy 21:3לֹֽא־ · has never; לֹא־
    Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
  10. Deuteronomy 21:4לֹא־ · has not; וְלֹ֣א
    …bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
  11. Deuteronomy 21:7לֹ֤א · did not; לֹ֥א · nor did
    …and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
  12. Deuteronomy 21:14לֹ֧א · you are not; לֹא־ · But you must not; לֹא־
    And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
  13. Deuteronomy 21:16לֹ֣א · he must not
    …when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.
  14. Deuteronomy 21:18וְלֹ֥א · and
    If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
  15. Deuteronomy 21:23לֹא־ · you must not leave; וְלֹ֤א · You must not
    …you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  16. Deuteronomy 22:1לֹֽא־ · you must not
    If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.
  17. Deuteronomy 22:2לֹ֨א · does not; וְלֹ֣א · or if you do not
    If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him.
  18. Deuteronomy 22:3לֹ֥א · not
    And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
  19. Deuteronomy 22:4לֹא־ · you must not
    If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
  20. Deuteronomy 22:5לֹא־ · must not; וְלֹא־ · must not
    A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
  21. Deuteronomy 22:6לֹא־ · you must not
    If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
  22. Deuteronomy 22:8וְלֹֽא־ · so that you do not
    If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
  23. Deuteronomy 22:9לֹא־ · Do not
    Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.
  24. Deuteronomy 22:10לֹֽא־ · Do not
    Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
  25. Deuteronomy 22:11לֹ֤א · Do not
    Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
  26. Deuteronomy 22:14וְלֹא־ · she was not
    …and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”
  27. Deuteronomy 22:17לֹֽא־ · was not
    And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.’ But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.
  28. Deuteronomy 22:19לֹא־ · he must not
    They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
  29. Deuteronomy 22:20לֹא־ · and no
    If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
  30. Deuteronomy 22:24לֹא־ · she did not
    …you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  31. Deuteronomy 22:26לֹא־ · nothing
    Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
  32. Deuteronomy 22:28לֹא־ · is not
    If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
  33. Deuteronomy 22:29לֹא־ · He must not
    …then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
  34. Deuteronomy 22:30לֹא־ · is not; וְלֹ֥א · so that he will not
    A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.
  35. Deuteronomy 23:1לֹֽא־ · No man
    No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
  36. Deuteronomy 23:2לֹא־ · No; לֹא־ · nor may any of his descendants
    No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
  37. Deuteronomy 23:3לֹֽא־ · No; לֹא־ · or any of their descendants
    No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
  38. Deuteronomy 23:4לֹא־ · they did not
    For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.