Hebrew intj · H3863
לוּא
luloo
if
22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lûwʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3863is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3863
a conditional particle; if; by implication (interj. as a wish) would that!
The King James renders it: if (haply), peradventure, I pray thee, though, I would, would God (that).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
lu is rendered "if". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 17:18And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
Genesis 17:18ל֥וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- if19
- and if3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 22, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ל֥וּ3
- לוּ־3
- ל֖וּ2
- ל֗וּ2
- וְל֥וּ1
- וְלוּ֙1
- וְל֨וּא1
- ל֤וּ1
- ל֚וּ1
- לוּ֩1
- ל֣וּ1
- ל֤וּ־1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”)19HC
- conjunction (“and”) + particle3HC/Tc
Genesis
four uses
And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
- ל֥וּluconjunction (“and”)tagged: if
and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”
- ל֖וּluconjunction (“and”)tagged: if
“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
- ל֖וּluconjunction (“and”)tagged: if
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”
- ל֥וּluconjunction (“and”)tagged: if
Numbers
four uses
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
- לוּ־lu-conjunction (“and”)tagged: if
- לוּ־lu-conjunction (“and”)tagged: if
The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
- וְל֥וּveluconjunction (“and”) + particletagged: and if
Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!”
- ל֤וּluconjunction (“and”)tagged: if
Deuteronomy
one use
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- ל֥וּluconjunction (“and”)tagged: if
Joshua
one use
“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
- וְלוּ֙veluconjunction (“and”) + particletagged: and if
Judges
two uses
“They were my brothers,” Gideon replied, “the sons of my mother! As surely as the LORD lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”
- ל֚וּluconjunction (“and”)tagged: if
But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”
- לוּ֩luconjunction (“and”)tagged: if
1 Samuel
one use
How much better it would have been if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies! Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been much greater?”
- לוּא֩lu'conjunction (“and”)tagged: if
2 Samuel
two uses
The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’
- וְל֨וּאvelo'conjunction (“and”) + particletagged: and if
You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
- ל֣וּloconjunction (“and”)tagged: if
Job
two uses
Psalms
one use
If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
- ל֗וּluconjunction (“and”)tagged: if
Isaiah
two uses
If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
- ל֥וּאlu'conjunction (“and”)tagged: if
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
- לוּא־lu'-conjunction (“and”)tagged: if
Ezekiel
one use
Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
- לֽוּ־lu-conjunction (“and”)tagged: if
Micah
one use
If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
- לוּ־lu-conjunction (“and”)tagged: if
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.