- Original: לוּ לא לוּא
- Transliteration: Luw'
- Phonetic: loo
- Definition:
1. if, oh that!, if only!
a. if (unlikely condition)
b. if only!, oh that!, would that!
- Origin: a conditional particle
- TWOT entry: 1085
- Part(s) of speech: Conjunction
- Strong's: A conditional particle;
if; by implication (interjectionally as a wish) would that!: - if (haply) peradventure I pray thee though I would would God (that).
Total KJV Occurrences: 22
• God, 3
Numbers 14:2;
Numbers 20:3;
Joshua 7:7
• haply, 1
1 Samuel 14:30
• if, 6
Judges 8:19;
Judges 13:23;
2 Samuel 19:6;
Job 16:4;
Ezekiel 14:15;
Micah 2:11
• peradventure, 1
Genesis 50:15
• that, 7
Genesis 17:18;
Numbers 14:2;
Deuteronomy 32:29;
Job 6:2;
Psalm 81:13;
Isaiah 48:18;
Isaiah 64:1
• thee, 1
Genesis 23:13
• Though, 1
2 Samuel 18:12
• would, 2
Genesis 30:34;
Numbers 22:29