Strong's Lexicon: H3809 לָא לָה

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3809
Word:	לָא לָה
Part of Speech:	adverb
Etymology:	corresponding to H3808
Language:	Aramaic
Occurrences:	82
Transliteration:	la
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	law ((Aramaic) or lah (Aramaic) (Dan. 4) adv.
Meaning:	1. (the simple or absolute negation) not 2. (by implication) no
KJV Renderings:	or even, neither, no(-ne, -r), ((can-))not, as nothing, without.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB9632

לָא (לָה Dan 4:32) adverb not (Biblical Hebrew לא; Aramaic of Têma, Egyptian, etc., לא; Nerab ל (Lzb³⁰¹ Cook^{G1. 67}); ᵑ7 לָא; Syriac [untranscribed source text 6061]); — not Jer 10:11; Dan 2:5; Dan 2:9; Dan 2:10, etc.; before a participle (so rarely in Biblical Hebrew, 1.b.c.), Dan 2:27; Dan 2:43; Dan 3:16; Dan 4:4; Dan 4:6; Dan 4:15 +, so v.Dan 4:32 וְכָלדָּֿאְרֵי אַרְעָא כְּלָה חֲשׁיבִין; are as men not accounted of (so Bev Behrm Marti, compare Isa 53:8 ᵑ7 בסירין ולא חשׁיבין; > most 'accounted as nothing,' for which no analogy, yet compare Ps 39:6 ᵑ7 ); followed by אִיתַי, see אִיתַי . With infinitive and לְ Dan 6:9 דִּי לָא לִהַשְׁנָיָה which it is not to alter = which is not to be altered (compare v.Dan 6:16), Ezra 6:8 (K^{§ 67,
1} Dr^{§ 202, 2}.; compare Isa 35:6 ᵑ7 , D^{Aramaic Dialektproben, p. 1}). With interr. הֲלָא Dan 3:24; Dan 4:27; Dan 6:13.

BDB9640

II. לָהֵן conjunction except, but (from לָא and הֵן 'not if' (compare Hebrew אם לא Gen 24:38); so Nabataean and Egyptian Aramaic להן Cooke^{217, 219, 241} S-C^{Pap. C 6, 7} +; lâinnî, however Soc^{Arab. Dial.} see Marokko 44, Anm. 103; ᵑ7 אִילָּהֵין Gen 32:28; Gen 43:3 and elsewhere); —

1. after a negative (= Biblical Hebrew כִּי אִם, q. v.):

a. except Dan 2:11; Dan 3:28; Dan 6:6; Dan 6:8.

b. but (German sondern) Dan 2:30.

2. without a negative: however, but Ezra 5:12.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

לא (lah)

Jeremiah 10:11

KJV: Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

EHCC: The gods that have not spade the heures

Daniel 2:5

KJV: The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.cut…: Chaldee, made pieces

EHCC: 9.if ye will /סא make known unto אם

Daniel 2:27

KJV: Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;

EHCC: cannot the wise (men), the astrologers,

Daniel 7:14

KJV: And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

EHCC: which shall sot pass away, and his ki:

Strong's Lexicon

H3809 — לָא לָה