BDB4270
לֻא 2Sam 18:12 Kt ( Qr לוּ) if: see לוּ .
Strong's Lexicon
H3863
H3863 — לוּא לוּא לוּ
Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | H3863 |
|---|---|
| Word: | לוּא לוּא לוּ |
| Part of Speech: | conjuction |
| Etymology: | a conditional particle |
| Language: | Hebrew |
| Occurrences: | 24 |
| Transliteration: | luw |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | loo (or lu {loo} or luw {loo};) conj. |
| Meaning: | 1. if 2. (by implication) (interj. as a wish) would that! |
| KJV Renderings: | if (haply), peradventure, I pray thee, though, I would, would God (that). |
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced
BDB4345
לוּ17 and לוּא ( 1Sam 14:30; Isa 48:18; Isa 63:19), also לֻא ( Qr לוּ), 2Sam 18:12; 2Sam 19:7 (Arabic [untranscribed source text 2769], Aramaic [untranscribed source text 2770], לְוַי, Mishna לְוַי, Assyrian lû , with optative force, Dl§§ 78 end, 93, 145; compare Köii. 333), conjunction if, O that: —
1.
if (stating a case which has not been, or is not likely to be, realized):
a.
followed by perfect (so mostly), Deut 32:29
לו חכמו ישׂכילו זאת
if they had been wise (which they are not), they would understand this; Mic 2:11
(apodosis וְהָיָה); Judg 8:19; Judg 13:23
להמיתנו לא לקח לו
׳
חפץ י
if J. had desired to slay us, he would not have taken, &c.; 1Sam 14:30; 2Sam 19:7.
b. followed by imperfect Ezek 14:15
if I were to send, &c. (but read probably אוֺ, compare Ezek 14:17
Ezek 14:19
).
c. followed by participle, 2Sam 18:12
וְלֻא אָנֹכִי שֹׁקֵל and though I should be weighing 1000 pieces of
silver upon my hand, I would not, &c.; Ps 81:14-17 לו עמי שֹׁמֵעַ לי
if my people were hearkening to me, . . . quickly would I bow down, &c.
d.
followed by יֵשׁ
Job 16:4. —
With the apodosis omitted, Gen 50:15
לוּ יִשְׂטְמֵנוּ
if Joseph were to hate us (how should we fare then ?).
2.
If only …! i.e. O that! would that! (compare εἰ γάρ,
εἴθε
) usually followed by perf., as Num 14:2 (twice in verse) לוּ מַתְנוּ
if only we had died in the land of Egypt! Num 20:3; Josh 7:7
וְלוּ הוֺאַלְנוּ וַנֵּשֶׁב
Isa 48:18
;
Isa 63:19
followed by יֵשׁ
Num 22:29
followed by imperfect Gen 17:18
לו יחיה
O that Ishmael might live before thee! Job 6:2 followed by jussive Gen 30:34
כדברך לו יהי; followed by imperative Gen 23:13
אם אתה לוּ שׁמעני if thou — O that thou wouldst hear me! (+ probably
v
Gen 23:5
לאמר ׃ לוּ שׁמעני for ׳
לאמרֹ לוֺ ׃ שׁ, and similarly Gen 23:15). — Read also probably לֻא for
Masoretic
לֹא
Judg 21:22
(with כִּי עַתָּה), 1Sam 13:13; 1Sam 20:14 (twice in verse); Job 9:33 (followed by
יֵשׁ);
and perhaps Job
14:4
(Ew
Kö).
Other Resources
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke
Englishman's Hebrew Concordance
לו (lo)
Numbers 14:0
- EHCC: Weald Ged that we had dd
Numbers 20:3
- KJV: And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!
- EHCC: Would God that we had 4 |
Deuteronomy 82:29
- EHCC: O that they were wise, !
Joshua 7:7
- KJV: And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
- EHCC: would to God we had been coaten,
Joshua 19:6
- KJV: And Beth–lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
- EHCC: (7).¢f Absalom had lived,
Ezekiel 14:15
- KJV: If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:spoil: or, bereave
- EHCC: cause noisome bessts to pes /