Occurrences
Lûwʼ occurs 22 times in 21 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (4), Numbers (3), Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (1), Judges (2), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (2), Job (2), Psalms (1), Isaiah (2), Ezekiel (1), Micah (1)
- Genesis 17:18 — And Abraham said unto God, O that (ל֥וּ) Ishmael might live before thee!
- 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 (ל֖וּ), hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
- Genesis 30:34 — And Laban said, Behold, I would (ל֖וּ) it might be according to thy word.
- Genesis 50:15 — And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure (ל֥וּ) hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
- 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 (לוּ) we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
- 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 died in the land of Egypt! or would God (לוּ) we had died in this wilderness!
- Numbers 20:3 — And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God (וְל֥וּ) that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
- Numbers 22:29 — And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would (ל֤וּ) there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
- Deuteronomy 32:29 — O that (ל֥וּ) they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- 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, to destroy us? would to God (וְלוּ֙) we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
- Judges 8:19 — And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if (ל֚וּ) ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
- Judges 13:23 — But his wife said unto him, If (לוּ֩) the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
- 1 Samuel 14:30 — How much more, if haply (לוּא֩) the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
- 2 Samuel 18:12 — And the man said unto Joab, Though (וְל֨וּא) I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
- 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 servants: for this day I perceive, that if (ל֣וּ) Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
- Job 6:2 — Oh that (ל֗וּ) my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- Job 16:4 — I also could speak as ye do: if (ל֤וּ) your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
- Psalms 81:13 — Oh that (ל֗וּ) my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
- Isaiah 48:18 — O that (ל֥וּא) 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 — Oh that (לוּא) thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
- Ezekiel 14:15 — If (לֽוּ) 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 beasts:
- Micah 2:11 — If (לוּ) 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 prophet of this people.