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lūlēʾ לוּלֵא ‘unless’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from לוּ ‘if’ and lōʾ לֹא ‘not’
Roots: לוא לוא לו לוא לוה

lūlēʾ conj
1) unless, if not, except

Mentioned in Genesis 31:42, 43:10 Deuteronomy 32:27 Judges 14:18 1 Samuel 25:34 2 Samuel 2:27 2 Kings 3:14 Isaiah 1:9 Psalms 119:92, 124:2, 27:13, 106:23, 124:1, 94:17

2014 — 2024 Institute for Biblical Content. Biblical Hebrew for linguists: a multilingual analytical biblical Hebrew lexicon.
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