לוּלֵא lûwlêʼ

Meaning

if not

In the King James Version: except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that.

Derivation: or לוּלֵי; from H3863 (לוּא) and H3808 (לֹא);

Where it is used

• Genesis 31:42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
• Genesis 43:10 If we had not delayed, we could have come and gone twice by now.”
• Deuteronomy 32:27 if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
• Judges 14:18 Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”
• 1 Samuel 25:34 Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
• 2 Samuel 2:27 “As surely as God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops would have continued pursuing their brothers until morning.”
• 2 Kings 3:14 Then Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not for my regard for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you or acknowledge you.
• Psalms 27:13 Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
• Psalms 94:17 Unless the LORD had been my helper, I would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.
• Psalms 106:23 So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
• Psalms 119:92 If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
• Psalms 124:1 A song of ascents. Of David. If the LORD had not been on our side—let Israel now declare—
• Psalms 124:2 if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
• Isaiah 1:9 Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.