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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. Judges 9:38הֲלֹ֨א · Are these not
    “Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
  2. Judges 10:6וְלֹ֥א · and did not
    And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
  3. Judges 10:11הֲלֹ֤א
    The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,
  4. Judges 10:13לֹֽא־ · I will no
    But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
  5. Judges 11:2לֹֽא־ · You shall have no
    And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”
  6. Judges 11:7הֲלֹ֤א · not
    Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
  7. Judges 11:10לֹ֥א · we do not
    And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”
  8. Judges 11:15לֹֽא־ · did not
    …to tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.
  9. Judges 11:17וְלֹ֤א · would not; וְלֹ֣א · but he would not
    Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel stayed in Kadesh.
  10. Judges 11:18וְלֹא־ · But they did not
    Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.
  11. Judges 11:20וְלֹא־ · would not
    But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.
  12. Judges 11:24הֲלֹ֞א · Do you not
    Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.
  13. Judges 11:26לֹֽא־ · did you not
    For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?
  14. Judges 11:27לֹֽא־ · have not
    I have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
  15. Judges 11:28וְלֹ֣א · paid no
    But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.
  16. Judges 11:35וְלֹ֥א · and cannot
    As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”
  17. Judges 11:39לֹא־ · had never
    After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
  18. Judges 12:1לֹ֤א · without
    Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”
  19. Judges 12:2וְלֹֽא־ · you did not
    But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.
  20. Judges 12:5לֹֽא׃ · No
    The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”
  21. Judges 12:6וְלֹ֤א · not
    …they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.
  22. Judges 13:2וְלֹ֥א · and had no
    Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
  23. Judges 13:3וְלֹ֣א · and have no
    The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
  24. Judges 13:5לֹא־ · And no
    For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
  25. Judges 13:6וְלֹ֤א · I did not; לֹֽא־ · and he did not
    So the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. His appearance was like the angel of God, exceedingly awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
  26. Judges 13:14לֹ֣א · She must not
    She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
  27. Judges 13:16לֹא־ · I will not; לֹא־ · did not
    And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
  28. Judges 13:21וְלֹא־ · did not
    And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.
  29. Judges 13:23לֹֽא־ · He would not; וְלֹ֥א · nor would He; לֹ֥א
    But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”
  30. Judges 14:4לֹ֣א · did not
    (Now his father and mother did not know this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines; for at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.)
  31. Judges 14:6וְלֹ֤א · But he did not
    …and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
  32. Judges 14:9וְלֹֽא־ · But he did not
    So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
  33. Judges 14:13לֹ֣א · you cannot
    But if you cannot solve it, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.” “Tell us your riddle,” they replied. “Let us hear it.”
  34. Judges 14:14וְלֹ֥א · they were unable
    So he said to them: “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.” For three days they were unable to explain the riddle.
  35. Judges 14:15הֲלֹֽא׃
    So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
  36. Judges 14:16וְלֹ֣א · You do not really; לֹ֣א · but have not; לֹ֥א · I have not
    Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
  37. Judges 14:18לֹ֥א · you would not
    Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”
  38. Judges 15:1וְלֹֽא־ · would not
    Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
  39. Judges 15:2הֲלֹ֨א · Is not
    “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
  40. Judges 15:11הֲלֹ֤א · Do you not
    In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
  41. Judges 15:13לֹ֚א · No; לֹ֣א · we will not
    “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
  42. Judges 16:7לֹא־ · have not
    Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”