STRONGS NUMBER H3884


Word Summary
luwle': if not, unless
Original Word: לוּלֵא
Transliteration: luwle'
Phonetic Spelling: (loo-lay')
Part of Speech: Preposition; Conjunction
Short Definition: if not, unless
Meaning: if not, unless
Strong's Concordance
except, had not, if

Or luwley {loo lay'}; from luw' and lo'; if not -- except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that.

see HEBREW luw'

see HEBREW lo'

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3884. luwle

' לוּלֵאGenesis 43:10; Judges 14:18; 2 Samuel 2:27; Psalm 27:13, elsewhere לוּלֵי10 if not, unless (from לוּif, and לֵא‎, by dissimilation (Köii. 236, 489) for לֹאnot; compare Arabic ), the negative of לוּ‎, and used similarly: —

a. followed by perfect, Judges 14:18 מצאתם לא ֗֗֗ חרשׁתם לולאunless ye had ploughed with my heifer, ye would not have found out my riddle, 1 Samuel 25:34 (second כי‎ resumptive: כִּי1d), Psalm 106:23; with apod, introd. by עַתָּה כִּיGenesis 31:42; 43:10; by אָז2 Samuel 2:27 (כי‎ resumptive); by כִּמְעַטIsaiah 1:9; with an aposiop. Psalm 27:13 if I had not believed ...!

b. followed by imperfect Deuteronomy 32:27 אגור לולי ֗֗֗ אמרתי‎ I should have said, &c . . . . except I dreaded, &c.

c. followed by participle, 2 Kings 3:14.

d. without a verb, Psalm 94:17 (apodosis כמעט‎), 119:92 (apodosis אָז‎). In the later language, 124:1; 124:2 -י ׳לוּלֵי שֶׁ‎ (apodosis אֲזַיexcept that ... (compare Aramaic, 106:23, דִּי ֗֗֗ אִילּוּלֵי27:13 ᵑ7‎). — Read also לוּלֵי‎ for אוּלַי‎ in Numbers 22:33 (apodosis עַתָּה כִּי‎). See further on לוּ‎ and לוּלֵא‎ Dr§§ 139-145iii. 487f; 565.