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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. Jeremiah 29:19לֹא־ · they have not; וְלֹ֥א · And neither have you [exiles]
    I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”
  2. Jeremiah 29:23ל֣וֹא · I did not
    For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
  3. Jeremiah 29:27לֹ֣א · have you not
    So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?
  4. Jeremiah 29:31לֹ֣א · did not
    “Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
  5. Jeremiah 29:32לֹא־ · no; וְלֹֽא־ · nor
    …this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
  6. Jeremiah 30:8וְלֹא־ · and no
    On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.
  7. Jeremiah 30:11לֹֽא־ · I will not; לֹ֥א · and will by no means
    For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
  8. Jeremiah 30:14לֹ֣א · they no longer
    All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.
  9. Jeremiah 30:19וְלֹ֣א · and they will not; וְלֹ֥א · and they will not
    Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
  10. Jeremiah 30:24לֹ֣א · will not
    The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this.
  11. Jeremiah 31:9לֹ֥א · where they will not
    They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
  12. Jeremiah 31:12וְלֹא־ · and never
    They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.
  13. Jeremiah 31:18לֹ֣א · like an untrained
    I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
  14. Jeremiah 31:29לֹא־ · it will no
    “In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
  15. Jeremiah 31:32לֹ֣א · It will not
    It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
  16. Jeremiah 31:34וְלֹ֧א · No; לֹ֥א · no
    No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
  17. Jeremiah 31:40לֹֽא־ · It will never; וְֽלֹא־
    The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
  18. Jeremiah 32:4לֹ֥א · will not
    Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.
  19. Jeremiah 32:5לֹ֥א · you will not
    He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”
  20. Jeremiah 32:17לֹֽא־ · Nothing
    “Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
  21. Jeremiah 32:23וְלֹֽא־ · but they did not; לֹא־ · They failed; לֹ֣א
    They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.
  22. Jeremiah 32:33וְלֹ֣א · and not
    They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
  23. Jeremiah 32:35לֹֽא־ · I never; וְלֹ֤א · nor had it ever
    They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.
  24. Jeremiah 32:40לֹֽא־ · I will never
    I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
  25. Jeremiah 33:3לֹ֥א · you do not
    Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
  26. Jeremiah 33:17לֹֽא־ · will never
    For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
  27. Jeremiah 33:18לֹֽא־ · nor
    …nor will the priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices.”
  28. Jeremiah 33:22לֹֽא־ · cannot; וְלֹ֥א · cannot
    As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
  29. Jeremiah 33:24הֲל֣וֹא · Have you not
    “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
  30. Jeremiah 33:25לֹ֥א; לֹא־ · I have not
    This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
  31. Jeremiah 34:3לֹ֚א · will not
    And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you will go to Babylon.
  32. Jeremiah 34:4לֹ֥א · You will not
    Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;
  33. Jeremiah 34:14וְלֹֽא־ · did not; וְלֹ֥א
    Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
  34. Jeremiah 34:17לֹֽא־ · have not
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  35. Jeremiah 34:18לֹֽא־ · and have not
    And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.
  36. Jeremiah 35:6לֹ֣א · We do not; לֹ֧א · are ever to
    “We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.
  37. Jeremiah 35:7לֹֽא־ · Nor are you ever
    Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’