1) if, oh that!, if only! 1a) if (unlikely condition) 1b) if only!, oh that!, would that!
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H3863 — לוּ
lu · if · Hebrew/Aramaic
20 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 17:18 · ל֥וּAbraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”Genesis 23:13 · ל֖וּHe spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”Genesis 30:34 · ל֖וּLaban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”Genesis 50:15 · ל֥וּWhen Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him.”Numbers 14:2 · לוּ־ · לוּ־All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!Numbers 20:3 · וְל֥וּThe people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!Numbers 22:29 · ל֤וּBalaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”Deuteronomy 32:29 · ל֥וּOh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!Joshua 7:7 · וְלוּ֙Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!Judges 8:19 · ל֚וּHe said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”Judges 13:23 · לוּ֩But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.”1 Samuel 14:30 · לוּא֩How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? For now has there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.”2 Samuel 18:12 · וְל֨וּאThe man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t put forth my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.’2 Samuel 19:6 · ל֣וּin that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.Job 6:2 · ל֗וּ“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!Job 16:4 · ל֤וּ־I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,Psalm 81:13 · ל֗וּOh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!Isaiah 48:18 · ל֥וּאOh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:Isaiah 64:1 · לוּא־Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,Micah 2:11 · לוּ־If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.