לוּ
lu
“if”
Definition
a conditional particle; if; by implication (interj. as a wish) would that!
or לֻא; or לוּ;
- if, oh that!, if only! 1a) if (unlikely condition) 1b) if only!, oh that!, would that!
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Intj
H:Intj
H:Intj
Occurrences
לוּ appears 18 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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?”
Verse text unavailable
“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
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.”
“If only my grief could be weighedand placed with my calamity on the scales.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.