# לוּא (lu)

Israeli respelling: lu. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3863. 22 Old Testament occurrences.

a conditional particle; if; by implication (interj. as a wish) would that!

King James renderings: if (haply), peradventure, I pray thee, though, I would, would God (that).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/lu-h3863

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 17:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/17/18) — And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
- [Genesis 23:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/23/13) — And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the…
- [Genesis 30:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/34) — And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
- [Genesis 50:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/15) — And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all t…
- [Numbers 14:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/2) — And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had d…
- [Numbers 20:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/20/3) — And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
- [Numbers 22:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/22/29) — And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
- [Deuteronomy 32:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/29) — O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- [Joshua 7:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/7) — And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites,…
- [Judges 8:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/19) — And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
- [Judges 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/13/23) — But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our han…
- [1 Samuel 14:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/30) — How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a muc…
- [2 Samuel 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/18/12) — And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against…
- [2 Samuel 19:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/6) — In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servant…
- [Job 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/2) — Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- [Job 9:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/33) — Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
- [Job 16:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/4) — I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
- [Psalms 81:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/81/13) — Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
- [Isaiah 48:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/18) — O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
- [Isaiah 64:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/1) — Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
- [Ezekiel 14:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/14/15) — If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the…
- [Micah 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/11) — If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the pr…