{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3884",
  "lemma": "לוּלֵא",
  "transliteration": "lûwlêʼ",
  "definition": "if not",
  "kjv": "except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that.",
  "occurrences": 14,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H3863",
      "lemma": "לוּא",
      "transliteration": "lûwʼ",
      "meaning": "a conditional particle",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3863"
    },
    {
      "id": "H3808",
      "lemma": "לֹא",
      "transliteration": "lôʼ",
      "meaning": "not",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3808"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "לוּלֵא, elsewhere לוּלֵי 10 if not, unless"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 31:42",
      "text": "Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=42"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 43:10",
      "text": "for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 32:27",
      "text": "were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 14:18",
      "text": "The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 25:34",
      "text": "For indeed, as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 2:27",
      "text": "Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/2?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 3:14",
      "text": "Elisha said, “As the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/3?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 1:9",
      "text": "Unless the LORD of Hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 27:13",
      "text": "I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/27?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 94:17",
      "text": "Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/94?v=17"
    }
  ],
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