H3884 לוּלֵא

לוּלֵא (lûwlêʼ), Strong’s H3884: if not KJV: except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that.. Occurs 14 times.

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lûwlêʼ — if not

KJV: except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that.

Built from לוּא lûwʼ (https://besorah.bible/word/H3863) (a conditional particle) + לֹא lôʼ (https://besorah.bible/word/H3808) (not)

Occurs 14 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לוּלֵא, elsewhere לוּלֵי 10 if not, unless

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