Biblica Analytica
H3863 Hebrew

לוּ

lu

if

Lexicon Entry

Definition
if
Transliteration
lu
Strong's Number
H3863
Occurrences
22

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Strong's
H3863
Lemma
לוּ
Transliteration
lu
Definition
if
Occurrences
22
Model
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Occurrences in Scripture

22 total occurrences across the text

Genesis 17:18

Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

Genesis 23:13

He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”

Genesis 30:34

Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

Genesis 50:15

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”

Numbers 14:2

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:2

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

Numbers 22:29

Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”

Deuteronomy 32:29

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Joshua 7:7

Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

Judges 8:19

He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”

Judges 13:23

But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”

1 Samuel 14:30

How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the plunder of their enemies which they found? For now there has been no great slaughter among the Philistines.”

2 Samuel 18:12

The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’

2 Samuel 19:6

in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died today, then it would have pleased you well.

Job 6:2

“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Job 16:4

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

Psalms 81:13

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Isaiah 48:18

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 64:1

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.

Ezekiel 14:15

“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

Micah 2:11

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.