Occurrences
ʼûwlay occurs 45 times in 44 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (12), Exodus (1), Numbers (5), Joshua (2), 1 Samuel (3), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (1), Job (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (6), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (1), Hosea (1), Amos (1), Jonah (1), Zephaniah (1)
- Genesis 16:2 — And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be (אוּלַ֥י) that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
- Genesis 18:24 — Peradventure (אוּלַ֥י) there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
- Genesis 18:28 — Peradventure (א֠וּלַי) there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
- Genesis 18:29 — And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure (אוּלַ֛י) there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.
- Genesis 18:30 — And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure (אוּלַ֛י) there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
- Genesis 18:31 — And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure (אוּלַ֛י) there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
- Genesis 18:32 — And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure (אוּלַ֛י) ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
- Genesis 24:5 — And the servant said unto him, Peradventure (אוּלַי֙) the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
- Genesis 24:39 — And I said unto my master, Peradventure (אֻלַ֛י) the woman will not follow me.
- Genesis 27:12 — My father peradventure (אוּלַ֤י) will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
- Genesis 32:20 — And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure (אוּלַ֖י) he will accept of me.
- Genesis 43:12 — And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure (אוּלַ֥י) it was an oversight:
- Exodus 32:30 — And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure (אוּלַ֥י) I shall make an atonement for your sin.
- Numbers 22:6 — Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure (אוּלַ֤י) I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
- Numbers 22:11 — Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure (אוּלַ֥י) I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
- Numbers 22:33 — And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless (אוּלַי֙) she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
- Numbers 23:3 — And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure (אוּלַ֞י) the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
- Numbers 23:27 — And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure (אוּלַ֤י) it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
- Joshua 9:7 — And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure (אוּלַ֗י) ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
- Joshua 14:12 — Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if (אוּלַ֨י) so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
- 1 Samuel 6:5 — Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure (אוּלַ֗י) he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- 1 Samuel 9:6 — And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure (אוּלַי֙) he can shew us our way that we should go.
- 1 Samuel 14:6 — And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that (אוּלַ֛י) the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
- 2 Samuel 14:15 — Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be (אוּלַ֛י) that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
- 2 Samuel 16:12 — It may be (אוּלַ֛י) that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
- 1 Kings 18:5 — And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure (אוּלַ֣י) we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
- 1 Kings 18:27 — And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure (אוּלַ֛י) he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
- 1 Kings 20:31 — And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure (אוּלַ֖י) he will save thy life.
- 2 Kings 19:4 — It may be (אוּלַ֡י) the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
- Job 1:5 — And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be (אוּלַי֙) that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
- Isaiah 37:4 — It may be (אוּלַ֡י) the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
- Isaiah 47:12 — Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be (אוּלַ֛י) thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
- Isaiah 47:12 — Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be (אוּלַ֥י) thou mayest prevail.
- Jeremiah 20:10 — For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure (אוּלַ֤י) he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
- Jeremiah 21:2 — Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be (אוּלַי֩) that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
- Jeremiah 26:3 — If so be (אוּלַ֣י) they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
- Jeremiah 36:3 — It may be that (אוּלַ֤י) the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
- Jeremiah 36:7 — It may be (אוּלַ֞י) they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
- Jeremiah 51:8 — Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be (אוּלַ֖י) she may be healed.
- Lamentations 3:29 — He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be (אוּלַ֖י) there may be hope.
- Ezekiel 12:3 — Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be (אוּלַ֣י) they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.
- Hosea 8:7 — For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be (אוּלַ֣י) it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
- Amos 5:15 — Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be (אוּלַ֗י) that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
- Jonah 1:6 — So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be (אוּלַ֞י) that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
- Zephaniah 2:3 — Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be (אוּלַי֙) ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger.