TBESH · H3863
לוּ · lu · if
1) if, oh that!, if only! 1a) if (unlikely condition) 1b) if only!, oh that!, would that!
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lu H3863
לוּ (lu) means “if” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
לוּ Hebrew · H3863 22 tagged occurrences in 21 verses
Pronunciation guide: loo Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or לֻא; or לוּ; a conditional particle; if; by implication (interj. as a wish) would that!
KJV glosses: if (haply), peradventure, I pray thee, though, I would, would God (that).
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How translators render H3863
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| if only | 9 |
| if | 6 |
| even if | 1 |
| o that | 1 |
| or if | 1 |
| what if | 1 |
| will please | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| if | 4 |
| o that | 3 |
| oh | 2 |
| behold i would it might be | 1 |
| i pray thee | 1 |
| if haply | 1 |
| me i would | 1 |
| oh that | 1 |
| or would god | 1 |
| that if | 1 |
| though | 1 |
| unto him if | 1 |
| unto them would god | 1 |
| us would to god | 1 |
| will peradventure | 1 |
| would god that | 1 |
Verses containing H3863
Page 1 of 1. 21 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 17:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
Read word by word - Genesis 23:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”
Read word by word - Genesis 30:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
Read word by word - Genesis 50:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”
Read word by word - Numbers 14:2
· BSB · 2 occurrences
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
Read word by word - Numbers 20:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
Read word by word - Numbers 22:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 32:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
Read word by word - Joshua 7:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
Read word by word - Judges 8:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“They were my brothers,” Gideon replied, “the sons of my mother! As surely as the LORD lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”
Read word by word - Judges 13:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 14:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How much better it would have been if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies! Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been much greater?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 18:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 19:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.7
- Job 6:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
Read word by word - Job 16:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
Read word by word - Psalms 81:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 81.14
- Isaiah 48:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
Read word by word - Isaiah 64:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 63.19
- Ezekiel 14:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
Read word by word - Micah 2:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
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