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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 49:23לֹ֥א · cannot
    Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
  2. Jeremiah 49:25לֹֽא־ · not
    How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
  3. Jeremiah 49:31לֹא־ · They have no; וְלֹֽא־ · [or]
    Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.
  4. Jeremiah 49:33לֹֽא־ · No; וְלֹֽא־ · no
    “Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
  5. Jeremiah 49:36וְלֹֽא־ · There will not; לֹֽא־ · will not
    I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
  6. Jeremiah 50:3וְלֹֽא־ · No one
    For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”
  7. Jeremiah 50:5לֹ֥א · that will never
    They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
  8. Jeremiah 50:7לֹ֣א · We are not
    All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
  9. Jeremiah 50:9לֹ֥א · who do not
    For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.
  10. Jeremiah 50:13לֹ֣א · she will not
    Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
  11. Jeremiah 50:20וְלֹ֣א · but they will not
    In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
  12. Jeremiah 50:24לֹ֣א
    I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.
  13. Jeremiah 50:39וְלֹֽא־ · It will never; וְלֹ֥א
    So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
  14. Jeremiah 50:40לֹֽא־ · no; וְלֹֽא־ · no
    As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.
  15. Jeremiah 50:42וְלֹ֣א
    They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
  16. Jeremiah 50:45לֹ֤א; לֹ֥א
    Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
  17. Jeremiah 51:5לֹֽא־ · have not
    For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”
  18. Jeremiah 51:9וְלֹ֣א · but she could not
    “We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
  19. Jeremiah 51:17וְלֹא־ · and [there is] no
    Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
  20. Jeremiah 51:19לֹֽא־ · is not
    The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
  21. Jeremiah 51:26וְלֹֽא־ · No one
    No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
  22. Jeremiah 51:39וְלֹ֣א · and never
    While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
  23. Jeremiah 51:43לֹֽא־ · no; וְלֹֽא־ · where no
    Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
  24. Jeremiah 51:44וְלֹֽא־ · will no
    I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
  25. Jeremiah 51:57וְלֹ֣א · and not
    I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
  26. Jeremiah 51:64וְלֹֽא־ · and never
    Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
  27. Jeremiah 52:6וְלֹא־ · no
    By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
  28. Jeremiah 52:20לֹא־
    As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
  29. Lamentations 1:3לֹ֥א · no
    Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
  30. Lamentations 1:6לֹא־ · no; בְלֹא־ · they lack
    All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.
  31. Lamentations 1:9לֹ֤א · she did not
    Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!
  32. Lamentations 1:10לֹא־
    The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
  33. Lamentations 1:12ל֣וֹא · Is this nothing
    Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
  34. Lamentations 1:14לֹא־ · of those I cannot
    My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
  35. Lamentations 2:1וְלֹא־ · He has abandoned
    How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
  36. Lamentations 2:2לֹא · Without
    Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
  37. Lamentations 2:8לֹא־ · and did not
    The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
  38. Lamentations 2:9לֹא־ · no
    Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
  39. Lamentations 2:14וְלֹֽא־ · they did not
    The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
  40. Lamentations 2:17וְלֹ֣א · without
    The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
  41. Lamentations 2:21לֹ֥א · without
    Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
  42. Lamentations 2:22וְלֹ֥א · no
    You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.