לֹא

lo

Hebrew H3808 Negative 5,187 occurrences in 3,967 verses
לֹא not

1. not, no

a. not (with verb-absolute prohibition)

b. not (with modifier-negation)

c. nothing (subst)

d. without (with particle)

e. before (of time)

Aramaic equivalent: la (לָא "not" H3809)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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  1. but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

  2. All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

  3. Deuteronomy 14:21 לֹ֣אלֹֽא־

    You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  4. But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,

  5. And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

  6. Deuteronomy 15:2 לֹֽא־

    This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.

  7. There will be no poor among you, however, because the LORD will surely bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,

  8. Deuteronomy 15:6 לֹ֣אלֹ֥א

    When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.

  9. Deuteronomy 15:7 לֹ֧אוְלֹ֤א

    If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

  10. Deuteronomy 15:9 וְלֹ֥א

    Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

  11. Deuteronomy 15:10 וְלֹא־

    Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.

  12. For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.

  13. And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.

  14. But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,

  15. Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

  16. Deuteronomy 15:19 לֹ֤אוְלֹ֥א

    You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.

  17. But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

  18. But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

  19. You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

  20. Deuteronomy 16:4 וְלֹֽא־וְלֹא־

    No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.

  21. You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

  22. For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.

  23. Deuteronomy 16:16 וְלֹ֧א

    Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

  24. Deuteronomy 16:19 לֹא־לֹ֥אוְלֹא־

    Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

  25. Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

  26. Deuteronomy 16:22 וְלֹֽא־

    and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

  27. You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.

  28. and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—

  29. On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.

  30. according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.

  31. Deuteronomy 17:13 וְלֹ֥א

    Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly.

  32. Deuteronomy 17:15 לֹ֣אלֹֽא־

    you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.

  33. Deuteronomy 17:16 לֹא־וְלֹֽא־לֹ֣א

    But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’

  34. Deuteronomy 17:17 וְלֹ֤אוְלֹ֥אלֹ֥א

    He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.

  35. Deuteronomy 18:1 לֹֽא־

    The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the offerings made by fire to the LORD; that is their inheritance.

  36. Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.

  37. Deuteronomy 18:9 לֹֽא־

    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

  38. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

  39. Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

  40. Deuteronomy 18:16 לֹ֣אלֹֽא־וְלֹ֥א

    This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”

  41. And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.

  42. But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”

  43. You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

  44. Deuteronomy 18:22 וְלֹֽא־וְלֹ֣אלֹא־לֹ֥א

    When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

  45. Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:

  46. Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm.

  47. Deuteronomy 19:10 וְלֹ֤א

    Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

  48. You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.

  49. You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

  50. A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

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