# H3863 לוּא

לוּא (lûwʼ), Strong’s H3863: a conditional particle; if; by implication (interj. as a wish) would that! KJV: if (haply), peradventure, I pray thee, though, I would, would God (that).. Occurs 23 times.

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*lûwʼ* — a conditional particle; if; by implication (interj. as a wish) would that!

KJV: if (haply), peradventure, I pray thee, though, I would, would God (that).

Occurs 23 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לוּ 17 and לוּא conj. if, O that
- 1 if (stating a case which has not been, or is not likely to be, realized)
- 2 If only …! i.e. O that! would that!

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 17:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=18) — Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
- [Genesis 23:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=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…
- [Genesis 30:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=34) — Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”
- [Genesis 50:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=15) — When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully…
- [Numbers 14:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=2) — All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that…
- [Numbers 20:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/20?v=3) — The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
- [Numbers 22:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=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…
- [Deuteronomy 32:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=29) — Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- [Joshua 7:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=7) — Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of…
- [Judges 8:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/8?v=19) — He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not…