Original Language Studio
Isaiah 1:9
“Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
לוּלֵאlûwlêʼ · loo-lay'
H3884 · Hebrew
H3884 · Hebrew
- Definition
- if not
- Derivation
- or לוּלֵי; from H3863 (לוּא) and H3808 (לֹא);
- KJV renderings
- except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that.
- Grammar
- לוּלֵי֙ — conjunction
- Usage
- Occurs 14 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 31:42Genesis 43:10Deuteronomy 32:27Judges 14:181 Samuel 25:34
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read לוּלֵא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.