Lexical Summary luwle': if not, unless Original Word: לוּלֵאTransliteration: luwle' Phonetic Spelling: (loo-lay') Part of Speech: Preposition; Conjunction Short Definition: if not, unless Meaning: if not, unless Strong's Concordance except, had not, if Or luwley {loo lay'}; from luw' and lo'; if not -- except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that. see HEBREW luw' see HEBREW lo' Brown-Driver-Briggs H3884. luwle ' לוּלֵא Genesis 43:10; Judges 14:18; 2 Samuel 2:27; Psalm 27:13, elsewhere לוּלֵי10 if not, unless (from לוּ if, and לֵא, by dissimilation (Köii. 236, 489) for לֹא not; compare Arabic ), the negative of לוּ, and used similarly: — a. followed by perfect, Judges 14:18 מצאתם לא ֗֗֗ חרשׁתם לולא unless ye had ploughed with my heifer, ye would not have found out my riddle, 1 Samuel 25:34 (second כי resumptive: כִּי 1d), Psalm 106:23; with apod, introd. by עַתָּה כִּי Genesis 31:42; 43:10; by אָז 2 Samuel 2:27 (כי resumptive); by כִּמְעַט Isaiah 1:9; with an aposiop. Psalm 27:13 if I had not believed ...! b. followed by imperfect Deuteronomy 32:27 אגור לולי ֗֗֗ אמרתי I should have said, &c . . . . except I dreaded, &c. c. followed by participle, 2 Kings 3:14. d. without a verb, Psalm 94:17 (apodosis כמעט), 119:92 (apodosis אָז). In the later language, 124:1; 124:2 -י ׳לוּלֵי שֶׁ (apodosis אֲזַי except that ... (compare Aramaic, 106:23, דִּי ֗֗֗ אִילּוּלֵי 27:13 ᵑ7). — Read also לוּלֵי for אוּלַי in Numbers 22:33 (apodosis עַתָּה כִּי). See further on לוּ and לוּלֵא Dr§§ 139-145 Köiii. 487f; 565. |
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