# H3808 לֹא

לֹא (lôʼ), Strong’s H3808: not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles KJV: [idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less…

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*lôʼ* — not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

KJV: [idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay…

Occurs 5183 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לֹא or לוֹא adv. not

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=5) — No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused…
- [Genesis 2:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=17) — but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely…
- [Genesis 2:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=18) — The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
- [Genesis 2:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=20) — The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there…
- [Genesis 2:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=25) — The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
- [Genesis 3:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=1) — Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has…
- [Genesis 3:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=3) — but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall…
- [Genesis 3:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=4) — The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
- [Genesis 3:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=17) — To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded…
- [Genesis 4:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=5) — but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.