H3884 לוּלֵא (lûwlêʼ) loo-lay'

Hebrew

Cond (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

unless

Strong's Definition

if not

Derivation: or לוּלֵי; from H3863 (לוּא) and H3808 (לֹא);

KJV Usage: except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that.

TWOT Reference: 1085a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) unless, if not, except

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

לוּלֵא (lu.le) — unless. unless, if not, except

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

לוּלֵא (H3884)

conj

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

לוּלֵא, elsewhere לוּלֵי 10 if not, unless base

Bible Occurrences (14)

31:42 43:10

32:27

14:18

25:34

2:27

3:14

27:13 94:17 106:23 119:92 124:1 124:2

1:9

Genesis 31:42

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.

Genesis 43:10

If we had not... delayed,... we could have come and gone... twice by now.

Deuteronomy 32:27

if I had not dreaded... the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.

Judges 14:18

Before sunset... on the seventh day, the men of the city said to [Samson]: What is sweeter than honey? And what [is] stronger than a lion? So he said to them: If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!

1 Samuel 25:34

Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not... come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light -.”

2 Samuel 2:27

As surely as God lives, Joab replied, if you had not... spoken up,...... the troops... would have continued pursuing their brothers until morning.

2 Kings 3:14

Then Elisha said, As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand -, were it not for my regard for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you or acknowledge you.

Isaiah 1:9

Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.