1) if, oh that!, if only! 1a) if (unlikely condition) 1b) if only!, oh that!, would that!
STRONG'S WORD STUDY
H3863 — לוּ
lu · if · Hebrew/Aramaic
20 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 17:18 · ל֥וּAnd Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!Genesis 23:13 · ל֖וּAnd he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou [wilt give it], I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there.Genesis 30:34 · ל֖וּAnd Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.Genesis 50:15 · ל֥וּAnd when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.Numbers 14:2 · לוּ־ · לוּ־And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!Numbers 20:3 · וְל֥וּAnd the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!Numbers 22:29 · ל֤וּAnd Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.Deuteronomy 32:29 · ל֥וּO that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!Joshua 7:7 · וְלוּ֙And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!Judges 8:19 · ל֚וּAnd he said, They [were] my brethren, [even] the sons of my mother: [as] the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.Judges 13:23 · לוּ֩But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these [things], nor would as at this time have told us [such things] as these.1 Samuel 14:30 · לוּא֩How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?2 Samuel 18:12 · וְל֨וּאAnd the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand [shekels] of silver in mine hand, [yet] would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none [touch] the young man Absalom.2 Samuel 19:6 · ל֣וּIn that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.Job 6:2 · ל֗וּOh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!Job 16:4 · ל֤וּ־I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.Psalm 81:13 · ל֗וּOh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways!Isaiah 48:18 · ל֥וּאO that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:Isaiah 64:1 · לוּא־Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,Micah 2:11 · לוּ־If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, [saying], I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.