1) perhaps, peradventure 2) if peradventure 3) unless 4) suppose
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H194 — אוּלַי
u.lay · perhaps · Hebrew/Aramaic
43 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 16:2 · אוּלַ֥יAnd Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.Genesis 18:24 · אוּלַ֥יPeradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?Genesis 18:28 · א֠וּלַיperadventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.Genesis 18:29 · אוּלַ֛יAnd he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty’s sake.Genesis 18:30 · אוּלַ֛יAnd he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.Genesis 18:31 · אוּלַ֛יAnd he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.Genesis 18:32 · אוּלַ֛יAnd he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.Genesis 24:5 · אוּלַי֙And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?Genesis 24:39 · אֻלַ֛יAnd I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.Genesis 27:12 · אוּלַ֤יMy father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.Genesis 32:20 · אוּלַ֖יand ye shall say, Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.Genesis 43:12 · אוּלַ֥יand take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:Exodus 32:30 · אוּלַ֥יAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto Jehovah; peradventure I shall make atonement for your sin.Numbers 22:6 · אוּלַ֤יCome now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.Numbers 22:11 · אוּלַ֥יBehold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covereth the face of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.Numbers 22:33 · אוּלַי֙and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive.Numbers 23:3 · אוּלַ֞יAnd Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height.Numbers 23:27 · אוּלַ֤יAnd Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.Joshua 9:7 · אוּלַ֗יAnd the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?Joshua 14:12 · אוּלַ֨יNow therefore give me this hill-country, whereof Jehovah spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Jehovah spake.1 Samuel 6:5 · אוּלַ֗יWherefore ye shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.1 Samuel 9:6 · אוּלַי֙And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man that is held in honor; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.1 Samuel 14:6 · אוּלַ֛יAnd Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Jehovah will work for us; for there is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few.2 Samuel 14:15 · אוּלַ֛יNow therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.2 Samuel 16:12 · אוּלַ֛יIt may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done unto me, and that Jehovah will requite me good for his cursing of me this day.1 Kings 18:5 · אוּלַ֣י׀And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land, unto all the fountains of water, and unto all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.1 Kings 18:27 · אוּלַ֛יAnd it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.1 Kings 20:31 · אוּלַ֖יAnd his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.2 Kings 19:4 · אוּלַ֡יIt may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.Job 1:5 · אוּלַי֙And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.Isaiah 37:4 · אוּלַ֡יIt may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.Isaiah 47:12 · אוּלַ֛י · אוּלַ֥יStand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.Jeremiah 20:10 · אוּלַ֤יFor I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.Jeremiah 21:2 · אוּלַי֩Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us: peradventure Jehovah will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.Jeremiah 26:3 · אוּלַ֣יIt may be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.Jeremiah 36:3 · אוּלַ֤יIt may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.Jeremiah 36:7 · אוּלַ֞יIt may be they will present their supplication before Jehovah, and will return every one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Jehovah hath pronounced against this people.Jeremiah 51:8 · אוּלַ֖יBabylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.Lamentations 3:29 · אוּלַ֖יLet him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.Hosea 8:7 · אוּלַ֣יFor they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.Amos 5:15 · אוּלַ֗יHate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.Jonah 1:6 · אוּלַ֞יSo the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.Zephaniah 2:3 · אוּלַי֙Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah’s anger.