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. 1 Kings 18:21 וְלֹֽא־

    Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.

  2. 1 Kings 18:23 לֹ֣אלֹ֥א

    Get two bulls for us. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. And I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire.

  3. 1 Kings 18:25 לֹ֥א

    Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”

  4. 1 Kings 18:44 וְלֹ֥א

    On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”

  5. 1 Kings 19:4 לֹא־

    while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

  6. 1 Kings 19:11 לֹ֥אלֹ֥א

    Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

  7. 1 Kings 19:12 לֹ֥א

    After the earthquake there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a still, small voice.

  8. 1 Kings 19:18 לֹֽא־לֹֽא־

    Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”

  9. 1 Kings 20:7 וְלֹ֥א

    Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please take note and see that this man is looking for trouble, for when he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, I did not deny him.”

  10. 1 Kings 20:8 וְל֥וֹא

    And the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”

  11. 1 Kings 20:9 לֹ֥א

    So Ahab answered the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you demanded of your servant the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” So the messengers departed and relayed the message to Ben-hadad.

  12. 1 Kings 20:23 לֹ֥א

    Meanwhile, the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they prevailed over us. Instead, we should fight them on the plains; surely then we will prevail.

  13. 1 Kings 20:25 לֹ֥א

    And you must raise an army like the one you have lost—horse for horse and chariot for chariot—so we can fight the Israelites on the plain, where we will surely prevail.” And the king approved their plan and acted accordingly.

  14. 1 Kings 20:28 וְלֹֽא־

    Then the man of God approached the king of Israel and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not of the valleys, I will deliver all this great army into your hand. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  15. 1 Kings 20:36 לֹֽא־

    Then the prophet said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you depart from me a lion will kill you.” And when he left, a lion found him and killed him.

  16. 1 Kings 21:4 לֹֽא־וְלֹֽא־

    So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.

  17. 1 Kings 21:6 לֹֽא־

    Ahab answered, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and told him, ‘Give me your vineyard for silver, or if you wish, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ And he replied, ‘I will not give you my vineyard!’”

  18. 1 Kings 21:25 לֹֽא־

    (Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.

  19. 1 Kings 21:29 לֹֽא־

    “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”

  20. 1 Kings 22:8 לֹֽא־

    The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man who can ask the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.

  21. 1 Kings 22:16 לֹֽא־

    But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

  22. 1 Kings 22:17 לֹֽא־

    So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”

  23. 1 Kings 22:18 הֲלוֹא֙לֽוֹא־

    Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he never prophesies good for me, but only bad?”

  24. 1 Kings 22:28 לֹֽא־

    But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”

  25. 1 Kings 22:31 לֹ֚א

    Now the king of Aram had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel.”

  26. 1 Kings 22:33 לֹא־

    And when the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

  27. 1 Kings 22:39 הֲלֽוֹא־

    As for the rest of the acts of Ahab, along with all his accomplishments and the ivory palace and all the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

  28. 1 Kings 22:43 לֹא־לֹֽא־

    And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

  29. 1 Kings 22:45 הֲלֹֽא־

    As for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, along with the might he exercised and how he waged war, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

  30. 1 Kings 22:48 וְלֹ֣א

    Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.

  31. 1 Kings 22:49 וְלֹ֥א

    At that time Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants sail with your servants,” but Jehoshaphat refused.

  32. 2 Kings 1:4 לֹֽא־

    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’” So Elijah departed.

  33. 2 Kings 1:6 לֹֽא־

    They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”

  34. 2 Kings 1:16 לֹֽא־

    And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”

  35. 2 Kings 1:17 לֹֽא־

    So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. And since he had no son, Jehoram succeeded him in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah.

  36. 2 Kings 1:18 הֲלֽוֹא־

    As for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

  37. 2 Kings 2:10 לֹ֥א

    “You have requested a difficult thing,” said Elijah. “Nevertheless, if you see me as I am taken from you, it will be yours. But if not, then it will not be so.”

  38. 2 Kings 2:12 וְלֹ֥א

    As Elisha watched, he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And he saw Elijah no more. So taking hold of his own clothes, he tore them in two.

  39. 2 Kings 2:16 לֹ֥א

    “Look now,” they said to Elisha, “we your servants have fifty valiant men. Please let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and put him on one of the mountains or in one of the valleys.” “Do not send them,” Elisha replied.

  40. 2 Kings 2:17 וְלֹ֥א

    But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.

  41. 2 Kings 2:18 הֲלֽוֹא־

    When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”

  42. 2 Kings 2:21 לֹֽא־

    and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’”

  43. 2 Kings 3:2 לֹ֥א

    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

  44. 2 Kings 3:3 לֹא־

    Nevertheless, he clung to the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.

  45. 2 Kings 3:9 וְלֹא־

    So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out, and after they had traveled a roundabout route for seven days, they had no water for their army or for their animals.

  46. 2 Kings 3:17 לֹֽא־וְלֹֽא־

    For the LORD says, ‘You will not see wind or rain, but the valley will be filled with water, and you will drink—you and your cattle and your animals.’

  47. 2 Kings 3:26 וְלֹ֥א

    When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not prevail.

  48. 2 Kings 4:23 לֹֽא־וְלֹ֣א

    “Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.

  49. 2 Kings 4:27 וְלֹ֥א

    When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

  50. 2 Kings 4:28 הֲלֹ֣אלֹ֥א

    Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”

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