Hebrew cond · H3884
לוּלֵא
luleloo-lay'
unless
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lûwlêʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3884is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3884
if not
The King James renders it: except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not 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
lule is rendered "unless". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Six of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:42If 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.”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
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 31:42לוּלֵ֡י
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
- if not14
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לוּל | lul | stairs | Uses1 |
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- לוּלֵ֣י5
- לוּלֵ֡י2
- לוּלֵ֣א1
- לׅׄוּלֵׅׄ֗אׅׄ1
- לוּלֵא֙1
- לוּלֵ֖א1
- לוּלֵ֗י1
- לוּלֵ֛י1
- לוּלֵי֙1
The grammar of each form
- particle14HTc
Genesis
two uses
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.”
- לוּלֵ֡יluleiparticletagged: if not
If we had not delayed, we could have come and gone twice by now.”
- לוּלֵ֣אlule'particletagged: if not
Deuteronomy
one use
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.’”
- לוּלֵ֗יluleiparticletagged: if not
Judges
one use
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!”
- לוּלֵא֙lule'particletagged: if not
1 Samuel
one use
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.”
- לוּלֵ֣יluleiparticletagged: if not
2 Samuel
one use
“As surely as God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops would have continued pursuing their brothers until morning.”
- לוּלֵ֖אlule'particletagged: if not
2 Kings
one use
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.
- לוּלֵ֛יluleiparticletagged: if not
Psalms
six uses
Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- לׅׄוּלֵׅׄ֗אׅׄlule'particletagged: if not
Unless the LORD had been my helper, I would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.
- לוּלֵ֣יluleiparticletagged: if not
So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
- לוּלֵ֡יluleiparticletagged: if not
If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
- לוּלֵ֣יluleiparticletagged: if not
If the LORD had not been on our side— let Israel now declare—
- לוּלֵ֣יluleiparticletagged: if not
if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
- לוּלֵ֣יluleiparticletagged: if not
Isaiah
one use
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
- לוּלֵי֙luleiparticletagged: if not
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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.