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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Concordance 3,967 verses

  1. Judges 12:5 לֹֽא׃

    The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

  2. Judges 12:6 וְלֹ֤א

    they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.

  3. Judges 13:2 וְלֹ֥א

    Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

  4. Judges 13:3 וְלֹ֣א

    The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.

  5. Judges 13:5 לֹא־

    For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

  6. Judges 13:6 וְלֹ֤אלֹֽא־

    So the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. His appearance was like the angel of God, exceedingly awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

  7. Judges 13:14 לֹ֣א

    She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”

  8. Judges 13:16 לֹא־לֹא־

    And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.

  9. Judges 13:21 וְלֹא־

    And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.

  10. Judges 13:23 לֹֽא־וְלֹ֥אלֹ֥א

    But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”

  11. Judges 14:4 לֹ֣א

    (Now his father and mother did not know this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines; for at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.)

  12. Judges 14:6 וְלֹ֤א

    and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

  13. Judges 14:9 וְלֹֽא־

    So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.

  14. Judges 14:13 לֹ֣א

    But if you cannot solve it, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.” “Tell us your riddle,” they replied. “Let us hear it.”

  15. Judges 14:14 וְלֹ֥א

    So he said to them: “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.” For three days they were unable to explain the riddle.

  16. Judges 14:15 הֲלֹֽא׃

    So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

  17. Judges 14:16 וְלֹ֣אלֹ֣אלֹ֥א

    Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

  18. Judges 14:18 לֹ֥א

    Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”

  19. Judges 15:1 וְלֹֽא־

    Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

  20. Judges 15:2 הֲלֹ֨א

    “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

  21. Judges 15:11 הֲלֹ֤א

    In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.

  22. Judges 15:13 לֹ֚אלֹ֣א

    “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.

  23. Judges 16:7 לֹא־

    Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”

  24. Judges 16:8 לֹא־

    So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

  25. Judges 16:9 וְלֹ֥א

    While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.

  26. Judges 16:11 לֹֽא־

    He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”

  27. Judges 16:15 וְלֹא־

    “How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

  28. Judges 16:17 לֹֽא־

    Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

  29. Judges 16:20 לֹ֣א

    Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

  30. Judges 18:1 לֹֽא־

    In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

  31. Judges 19:10 וְלֹֽא־

    But the man was unwilling to spend the night. He got up and departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.

  32. Judges 19:12 לֹ֤אלֹֽא־

    But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”

  33. Judges 19:24 לֹ֣א

    Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”

  34. Judges 19:25 וְלֹֽא־

    But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.

  35. Judges 19:30 לֹֽא־וְלֹֽא־

    And everyone who saw it said, “Nothing like this has been seen or done from the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt until this day. Think it over, take counsel, and speak up!”

  36. Judges 20:8 לֹ֤אוְלֹ֥א

    Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.

  37. Judges 20:13 וְלֹ֤א

    Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.

  38. Judges 20:16 וְלֹ֥א

    Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.

  39. Judges 20:34 לֹ֣א

    Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.

  40. Judges 21:1 לֹא־

    Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”

  41. Judges 21:5 לֹא־לֹא־

    The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.

  42. Judges 21:8 לֹֽא־לֹ֣א

    So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

  43. Judges 21:12 לֹֽא־

    So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

  44. Judges 21:14 וְלֹֽא־

    And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.

  45. Judges 21:17 וְלֹֽא־

    They added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

  46. Judges 21:18 לֹ֥א

    But we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”

  47. Judges 21:22 לֹ֥אלֹ֥א

    When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”

  48. Ruth 2:8 הֲל֧וֹאלֹ֥א

    Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.

  49. Ruth 2:9 הֲל֥וֹא

    Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”

  50. Ruth 2:11 לֹא־

    Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.

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