Keraia
Lexicon

לֹא

lonotHow to read Hebrew
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

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

5,187 total
  1. Jeremiah 17:23וְלֹ֣א · Yet they would not; וְלֹ֥א
    Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.
  2. Jeremiah 17:27לֹ֨א · you do not; וְלֹ֥א
    But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
  3. Jeremiah 18:6לֹא־ · I not
    “O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
  4. Jeremiah 18:15לֹ֥א · instead of
    Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
  5. Jeremiah 18:17וְלֹֽא־ · and not
    I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
  6. Jeremiah 18:18לֹא־ · will never
    Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
  7. Jeremiah 19:4לֹֽא־ · have [ever]
    …because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
  8. Jeremiah 19:5לֹֽא־ · I never; וְלֹ֣א · nor; וְלֹ֥א
    They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
  9. Jeremiah 19:6וְלֹא־ · will no
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
  10. Jeremiah 19:11לֹֽא־ · never
    …and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
  11. Jeremiah 20:3לֹ֤א · does not
    The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
  12. Jeremiah 20:9לֹֽא־ · I will not; וְלֹֽא־; וְלֹ֥א · and I cannot
    If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
  13. Jeremiah 20:11וְלֹ֣א · and will not; לֹ֣א · they have not; לֹ֥א · that will never
    But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
  14. Jeremiah 20:16וְלֹ֣א · without
    May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
  15. Jeremiah 20:17לֹא־ · he did not
    …because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
  16. Jeremiah 21:7לֹֽא־ · he will not; וְלֹ֥א · [or]; וְלֹ֥א · [or]
    ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
  17. Jeremiah 21:10וְלֹ֥א · and not
    For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’
  18. Jeremiah 22:5לֹ֣א · you do not
    But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
  19. Jeremiah 22:6לֹ֤א; לֹ֥א · that are uninhabited
    For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
  20. Jeremiah 22:10לֹ֤א · he will never
    Do not weep for him who is dead; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for him who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.
  21. Jeremiah 22:11לֹֽא־ · He will never
    For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
  22. Jeremiah 22:12לֹֽא־ · he will never
    …but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.”
  23. Jeremiah 22:13בְּֽלֹא־ · by; בְּלֹ֣א · without; לֹ֥א · and fails
    “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
  24. Jeremiah 22:15הֲל֧וֹא · Did not
    Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
  25. Jeremiah 22:16הֲלוֹא־ · not
    He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
  26. Jeremiah 22:18לֹא־ · They will not; לֹא־ · They will not
    Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
  27. Jeremiah 22:21לֹ֣א · I will not; לֹֽא־ · you have not
    I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
  28. Jeremiah 22:26לֹֽא־ · neither
    I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
  29. Jeremiah 22:27לֹ֥א · [You] will never
    You will never return to the land for which you long.”
  30. Jeremiah 22:28לֹא־ · they do not
    Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
  31. Jeremiah 22:30לֹא־ · who will not; לֹ֨א · None
    This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
  32. Jeremiah 23:2וְלֹ֥א · and have not
    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
  33. Jeremiah 23:4וְלֹא־ · and they will no; וְלֹא־ · nor
    I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.