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 · אוּלַ֥יSarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.Genesis 18:24 · אוּלַ֥יWhat if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?Genesis 18:28 · א֠וּלַיWhat if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there.”Genesis 18:29 · אוּלַ֛יHe spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”Genesis 18:30 · אוּלַ֛יHe said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”Genesis 18:31 · אוּלַ֛יHe said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”Genesis 18:32 · אוּלַ֛יHe said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”Genesis 24:5 · אוּלַי֙The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”Genesis 24:39 · אֻלַ֛יI asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’Genesis 27:12 · אוּלַ֤יWhat if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”Genesis 32:20 · אוּלַ֖יYou shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”Genesis 43:12 · אוּלַ֥יand take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.Exodus 32:30 · אוּלַ֥יIt happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”Numbers 22:6 · אוּלַ֤יPlease come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”Numbers 22:11 · אוּלַ֥י‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”Numbers 22:33 · אוּלַי֙and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”Numbers 23:3 · אוּלַ֞יBalaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.Numbers 23:27 · אוּלַ֤יBalak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there.”Joshua 9:7 · אוּלַ֗יThe men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?”Joshua 14:12 · אוּלַ֨יNow therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke.”1 Samuel 6:5 · אוּלַ֗יTherefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.1 Samuel 9:6 · אוּלַי֙He said to him, “See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor. All that he says comes surely to pass. Now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.”1 Samuel 14:6 · אוּלַ֛יJonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”2 Samuel 14:15 · אוּלַ֛יNow therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’2 Samuel 16:12 · אוּלַ֛יIt may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”1 Kings 18:5 · אוּלַ֣י׀Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”1 Kings 18:27 · אוּלַ֛יIt happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”1 Kings 20:31 · אוּלַ֖יHis servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”2 Kings 19:4 · אוּלַ֡יIt may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”Job 1:5 · אוּלַי֙It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, 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.” Job did so continually.Isaiah 37:4 · אוּלַ֡יIt may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”Isaiah 47:12 · אוּלַ֛י · אוּלַ֥י“Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may 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, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.Jeremiah 21:2 · אוּלַי֩Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us: perhaps Yahweh 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 listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to 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 to 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 Yahweh, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has 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 will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.Amos 5:15 · אוּלַ֗יHate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”Jonah 1:6 · אוּלַ֞יSo the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”Zephaniah 2:3 · אוּלַי֙Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.