Midvash

לֹאlôʼ

לֹא: not

Pronunciation: lo · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3808

Meanings

1. in predication

a. with a verb (Genesis 2:5; Genesis 4:5; Genesis 3:4)

b. with adjectives and substantives (Genesis 2:18; Exodus 18:17; Exodus 4:16)

2. Not in predication

a. coupled to an adjective to negate it (Hosea 13:13; Psalms 36:5; Psalms 43:1)

b. with a participle (Jeremiah 2:2; Jeremiah 18:15; Isaiah 62:12)

d. with a substantive, in poetry, forming a kind of compound, expressing pointedly its antithesis or negation (Deuteronomy 32:5; Amos 6:13; Isaiah 10:15)

e. in circumstantial clauses (2 Samuel 23:4; Job 12:24; Job 38:26)

3. as a substantive (Job 6:21; Daniel 4:32; Job 24:25)

4. With prefixes

a. with not, without (Jeremiah 22:13; Ezekiel 22:29; Proverbs 16:8)

b. nonne?, Is not (Genesis 4:7; Genesis 13:19; Genesis 19:20)

c. and not, and if not (2 Samuel 13:26; 2 Kings 5:17)

d. as though (Obadiah 1:16)

e. without, in the condition of no (2 Chronicles 15:3; Amos 6:13; 2 Chronicles 13:9)

לוֺ: see לֹא (1 Samuel 2:16; 1 Samuel 20:2)

ᵑ7: not (Daniel 4:32; Jeremiah 10:11; Daniel 2:5; Daniel 2:9; Daniel 2:10)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5,169 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:5 neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.
  • Genesis 2:17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
  • Genesis 2:18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
  • Genesis 2:20 He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
  • Genesis 2:25 Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
  • Genesis 3:1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).