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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 23:5וְלֹֽא־ · not
    Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
  2. Deuteronomy 23:6לֹא־ · You are not to
    You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.
  3. Deuteronomy 23:7לֹֽא־ · Do not; לֹא־ · Do not
    Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
  4. Deuteronomy 23:10לֹא־; לֹ֥א
    If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
  5. Deuteronomy 23:14וְלֹֽא־ · lest
    For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.
  6. Deuteronomy 23:15לֹא־ · Do not
    Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
  7. Deuteronomy 23:16לֹ֖א · Do not
    Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
  8. Deuteronomy 23:17לֹא־ · No; וְלֹֽא־ · or
    No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
  9. Deuteronomy 23:18לֹא־ · You must not
    You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
  10. Deuteronomy 23:19לֹא־ · Do not
    Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
  11. Deuteronomy 23:20לֹ֣א · but not
    You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
  12. Deuteronomy 23:21לֹ֥א · do not
    If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  13. Deuteronomy 23:22לֹֽא־ · you will not
    But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.
  14. Deuteronomy 23:24לֹ֥א · but you must not
    When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
  15. Deuteronomy 23:25לֹ֣א · but you must not
    When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
  16. Deuteronomy 24:1לֹ֧א · she becomes displeasing
    If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
  17. Deuteronomy 24:4לֹא־ · not; וְלֹ֤א · You must not
    …then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  18. Deuteronomy 24:5לֹ֤א · he must not; וְלֹא־ · or
    If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
  19. Deuteronomy 24:6לֹא־ · Do not
    Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
  20. Deuteronomy 24:10לֹא־ · do not
    When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
  21. Deuteronomy 24:12לֹ֥א · you must not
    If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
  22. Deuteronomy 24:14לֹא־ · Do not
    Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
  23. Deuteronomy 24:15וְֽלֹא־ · before; וְלֹֽא־ · Otherwise
    You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  24. Deuteronomy 24:16לֹֽא־ · shall not; לֹא־
    Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
  25. Deuteronomy 24:17לֹ֣א · Do not; וְלֹ֣א · and do not
    Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
  26. Deuteronomy 24:19לֹ֤א · do not
    If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
  27. Deuteronomy 24:20לֹ֥א · you must not
    When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
  28. Deuteronomy 24:21לֹ֥א · you must not
    When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
  29. Deuteronomy 25:3לֹ֣א · no
    He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
  30. Deuteronomy 25:4לֹא־ · Do not
    Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
  31. Deuteronomy 25:5לֹֽא־ · must not
    When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
  32. Deuteronomy 25:6וְלֹֽא־ · will not
    The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
  33. Deuteronomy 25:7לֹ֤א · does not; לֹ֥א · He is not
    But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
  34. Deuteronomy 25:8לֹ֥א · I do not
    Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
  35. Deuteronomy 25:9לֹא־ · will not
    …his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
  36. Deuteronomy 25:12לֹ֥א
    …you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
  37. Deuteronomy 25:13לֹֽא־ · You shall not
    You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
  38. Deuteronomy 25:14לֹא־ · You shall not
    You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
  39. Deuteronomy 25:18וְלֹ֥א · they had no
    …how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.
  40. Deuteronomy 25:19לֹ֖א · Do not
    When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
  41. Deuteronomy 26:13לֹֽא־ · I have not
    Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.