Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #142742

OSHB 2 Sam 2:27 לוּלֵא (lūlēʼ) Strongs=3884 Lemma=‘לוּלֵא’
contextual word gloss=‘if_not’ word gloss=‘not’
Morphology=C PoS=conjunction
Year=-1053 TimeSeries=Reign_of_David

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Other uses (2) of identical word form לוּלֵא (Morphology=C PoS=conjunction) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘לוּלֵא’ (Morphology=C PoS=conjunction) is always and only glossed as ‘if_not’.

GEN 43:10 contextual word gloss=‘if_not’ word gloss=‘if_~_not’ OSHB GEN 43:10 word 2

OET-LV: 10 If/because if _not we _had _delayed if/because now we _have _returned this two _times. (GEN_43:10)

OET-RV: 10 If we hadn’t sat around here doing nothing for so long, certainly by now we could have been there and back twice!” (GEN 43:10)

JDG 14:18 contextual word gloss=‘if_not’ word gloss=‘if_~_not’ OSHB JDG 14:18 word 18

OET-LV: 18 And_they _said to_him/it the _men _of the_city in _the_day the_seventh before it _went (to)_the_sun what is_sweet more_than _honey and_what is_strong more_than _a _lion and_he/it _said to/for_them if _not you(pl)_had _plowed with_my _of_heifer not you(pl)_found _out riddle _of_my. (JDG_14:18)

OET-RV: 18 Then the men of the city said to Shimshon before the sun went down on the seventh day,
⇔ “What is sweeter than honey?
⇔ And what’s stronger than a lion?”
§ So he said to them,
⇔ “If you all hadn’t ploughed with my heifer,
⇔ you wouldn’t have been able to solve my riddle.” (JDG 14:18)