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 saith unto Abram, ‘Lo, I pray thee, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing, go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; perhaps I am built up from her;’ and Abram hearkeneth to the voice of Sarai.Genesis 18:24 · אוּלַ֥יperadventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty—the righteous who are in its midst?Genesis 18:28 · א֠וּלַיperadventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous—dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?’ and He saith, ‘I destroy it not, if I find there forty and five.’Genesis 18:29 · אוּלַ֛יAnd he addeth again to speak unto Him and saith, ‘Peradventure there are found there forty?’ and He saith, ‘I do it not, because of the forty.’Genesis 18:30 · אוּלַ֛יAnd he saith, ‘Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?’ and He saith, ‘I do it not, if I find there thirty.’Genesis 18:31 · אוּלַ֛יAnd he saith, ‘Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there are found there twenty?’ and He saith, ‘I do not destroy it, because of the twenty.’Genesis 18:32 · אוּלַ֛יAnd he saith, ‘Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?’ and He saith, ‘I do not destroy it, because of the ten.’Genesis 24:5 · אוּלַי֙And the servant saith unto him, ‘It may be the woman is not willing to come after me unto this land; do I at all cause thy son to turn back unto the land from whence thou camest out?’Genesis 24:39 · אֻלַ֛י‘And I say unto my lord, It may be the woman doth not come after me;Genesis 27:12 · אוּלַ֤יit may be my father doth feel me, and I have been in his eyes as a deceiver, and have brought upon me disesteem, and not a blessing;’Genesis 32:20 · אוּלַ֖יand ye have said also, Lo, thy servant Jacob is behind us;’ for he said, ‘I pacify his face with the present which is going before me, and afterwards I see his face; it may be he lifteth up my face;’Genesis 43:12 · אוּלַ֥יand double money take in your hand, even the money which is brought back in the mouth of your bags, ye take back in your hand, it may be it is an oversight.Exodus 32:30 · אוּלַ֥יAnd it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that Moses saith unto the people, ‘Ye—ye have sinned a great sin, and now I go up unto Jehovah, if so be I atone for your sin.’Numbers 22:6 · אוּלַ֤יand now, come, I pray thee, curse for me this people, for it is mightier than I; it may be I prevail—we smite it—and I cast it out from the land; for I have known—that which thou blessest is blessed, and that which thou cursest is cursed.’Numbers 22:11 · אוּלַ֥יLo, the people that is coming out from Egypt and covereth the eye of the land,—now come, pierce it for me; it may be I am able to fight against it, and have cast it out;’Numbers 22:33 · אוּלַי֙and the ass seeth me, and turneth aside at my presence these three times; unless she had turned aside from my presence, surely now also, thee I had slain, and her kept alive.’Numbers 23:3 · אוּלַ֞יand Balaam saith to Balak, ‘Station thyself by thy burnt-offering and I go on, it may be Jehovah doth come to meet me, and the thing which He sheweth me—I have declared to thee;’ and he goeth to a high place.Numbers 23:27 · אוּלַ֤יAnd Balak saith unto Balaam, ‘Come, I pray thee, I take thee unto another place; it may be it is right in the eyes of God—to pierce it for me from thence.’Joshua 9:7 · אוּלַ֗יand the men of Israel say unto the Hivite, ‘It may be in our midst ye are dwelling, and how do we make with thee a covenant?’Joshua 14:12 · אוּלַ֨יAnd now, give to me this hill-country, of which Jehovah spake in that day, for thou didst hear in that day, for Anakim are there, and cities, great, fenced; if so be Jehovah is with me, then I have dispossessed them, as Jehovah hath spoken.’1 Samuel 6:5 · אוּלַ֗יand ye have made images of your emerods, and images of your mice that are corrupting the land, and have given honour to the God of Israel; it may be He doth lighten His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land;1 Samuel 9:6 · אוּלַי֙And he saith to him, ‘Lo, I pray thee, a man of God is in this city, and the man is honoured; all that he speaketh doth certainly come; now, we go there, it may be he doth declare to us our way on which we have gone.’1 Samuel 14:6 · אוּלַ֛יAnd Jonathan saith unto the young man bearing his weapons, ‘Come, and we pass over unto the station of these uncircumcised; it may be Jehovah doth work for us, for there is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few.’2 Samuel 14:15 · אוּלַ֛יAnd now that I have come to speak unto the king my lord this word, it is because the people made me afraid, and thy maid-servant saith, Let me speak, I pray thee, unto the king; it may be the king doth do the word of his handmaid,2 Samuel 16:12 · אוּלַ֛יit may be Jehovah doth look on mine affliction, and Jehovah hath turned back to me good for his reviling this day.’1 Kings 18:5 · אוּלַ֣י׀and Ahab saith unto Obadiah, ‘Go through the land, unto all fountains of waters, and unto all the brooks, if so be we find hay, and keep alive horse and mule, and do not cut off any of the cattle.’1 Kings 18:27 · אוּלַ֛יAnd it cometh to pass, at noon, that Elijah playeth on them, and saith, ‘Call with a loud voice, for he is a god, for he is meditating, or pursuing, or on a journey; it may be he is asleep, an doth awake.’1 Kings 20:31 · אוּלַ֖יAnd his servants say unto him, ‘Lo, we pray thee, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel—that they are kind kings; let us put, we pray thee, sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and we go out unto the king of Israel; it may be he doth keep thee alive.’2 Kings 19:4 · אוּלַ֡י‘It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.’Job 1:5 · אוּלַי֙and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings—the number of them all—for Job said, ‘Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.’ Thus doth Job all the days.Isaiah 37:4 · אוּלַ֡י‘It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.’Isaiah 47:12 · אוּלַ֛י · אוּלַ֥יStand, I pray thee, in thy charms, And in the multitude of thy sorceries, In which thou hast laboured from thy youth, It may be thou art able to profit, It may be thou dost terrify!Jeremiah 20:10 · אוּלַ֤יFor I have heard the evil report of many, Fear is round about: ‘Declare, and we declare it,’ All mine allies are watching for my halting, ‘Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.’Jeremiah 21:2 · אוּלַי֩‘Inquire, we pray thee, for us at Jehovah, for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath fought against us; perhaps Jehovah doth deal with us according to all His wonders, and doth cause him to go up from off us.’Jeremiah 26:3 · אוּלַ֣יIf so be they hearken, and turn back each from his evil way, then I have repented concerning the evil that I am thinking of doing to them, because of the evil of their doings.Jeremiah 36:3 · אוּלַ֤יif so be the house of Israel do hear all the evil that I am thinking of doing to them, so that they turn back each from is evil way, and I have been propitious to their iniquity, and to their sin.’Jeremiah 36:7 · אוּלַ֞יif so be their supplication doth fall before Jehovah, and they turn back each from his evil way, for great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah hath spoken concerning this people.’Jeremiah 51:8 · אוּלַ֖יSuddenly hath Babylon fallen, Yea, it is broken, howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain, if so be it may be healed.Lamentations 3:29 · אוּלַ֖יHe putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope.Hosea 8:7 · אוּלַ֣יFor wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers do swallow it up.Amos 5:15 · אוּלַ֗יHate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.Jonah 1:6 · אוּלַ֞יAnd the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, ‘What—to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.’Zephaniah 2:3 · אוּלַי֙Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.