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Lexicon :: Strong's H3809 - lā'

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לָא
Transliteration
lā'
Pronunciation
law
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
Corresponding to לֹא (H3808)
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TWOT Reference: 2808

Strong’s Definitions

לָא lâʼ, law; (Aramaic) or לָה lâh; (Aramaic) (Daniel 4:32), corresponding to H3808:—or even, neither, no(-ne, -r), (can-) not, as nothing, without.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 82x

The KJV translates Strong's H3809 in the following manner: not (49x), no (9x), nor (9x), without (4x), neither (3x), none (3x), cannot (with H3202) (1x), ever (1x), never (with H5957) (1x), no (with H3606) (1x), nothing (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 82x
The KJV translates Strong's H3809 in the following manner: not (49x), no (9x), nor (9x), without (4x), neither (3x), none (3x), cannot (with H3202) (1x), ever (1x), never (with H5957) (1x), no (with H3606) (1x), nothing (1x).

  1. no, not, nothing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לָא lâʼ, law; (Aramaic) or לָה lâh; (Aramaic) (Daniel 4:32), corresponding to H3808:—or even, neither, no(-ne, -r), (can-) not, as nothing, without.
STRONGS H3809: Abbreviations

Biblical Aramaic

לָא (לָה †Daniel 4:32 [Daniel 4:35]) adverb not (Biblical Hebrew H3808 לא; Aramaic of Têma, Egyptian, etc., לא; Nerab ל (Lzb301 CookG1. 67); Targum לָא; Syriac bdb109801); — not Jeremiah 10:11; Daniel 2:5, 9, 10, etc.; before a participle (so rarely in Biblical Hebrew, 1b c), Daniel 2:27, 43; Daniel 3:16; Daniel 4:4 [Daniel 4:7]; Daniel 4:6 [Daniel 4:9]; Daniel 4:15 [Daniel 4:18] +, so Daniel 4:32 [Daniel 4:35] וְכָל־דָּאְרֵי אַרְעָא כְּלָה חֲשׁיבִין; are as men not accounted of (so Bev Behrm Marti, compare Isaiah 53:8 Targum בסירין ולא חשׁיבין; > most 'accounted as nothing,' for which no analogy, yet compare Psalm 39:6 Targum); followed by אִיתַי, see אִיתַי. With infinitive and לְ Daniel 6:9 דִּי לָא לִהַשְׁנָיָה which it is not to alter = which is not to be altered (compare Daniel 6:16), Ezra 6:8 (K§ 67, 1 Dr§ 202, 2.; compare Isaiah 35:6 Targum, DAramaic Dialektproben, p. 1). With interr. הֲלָא †Daniel 3:24; Daniel 4:27 [Daniel 4:30]; Daniel 6:13.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

6:8

Psalms

39:6

Isaiah

35:6; 53:8

Jeremiah

10:11

Daniel

2:5; 2:9; 2:10; 2:27; 2:43; 3:16; 3:24; 4:7; 4:9; 4:18; 4:30; 4:35; 4:35; 6:9; 6:13; 6:16

H3809

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3809 matches the Hebrew לָא (lā'),
which occurs 69 times in 47 verses in 'Dan' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5 - The king replied to the astrologers, “This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:9 - If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one penalty for you. You have conspired to tell me misleading and wicked things, hoping the situation will change. So then, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can interpret it for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10 - The astrologers answered the king, “There is no one on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11 - What the king asks is too difficult. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among humans.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:18 - He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:27 - Daniel replied, “No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:30 - As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:34 - While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:35 - Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:43 - And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:44 - “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:45 - This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces. “The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:6 - Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:11 - and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into a blazing furnace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:12 - But there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego—who pay no attention to you, Your Majesty. They neither serve your gods nor worship the image of gold you have set up.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:14 - and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the image of gold I have set up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15 - Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:16 - Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:18 - But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24 - Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?” They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:25 - He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:27 - and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:28 - Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:29 - Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:7 - When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers[fn] and diviners came, I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:9 - I said, “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you. Here is my dream; interpret it for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:18 - “This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, had. Now, Belteshazzar, tell me what it means, for none of the wise men in my kingdom can interpret it for me. But you can, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:30 - he said, “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:35 - All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: “What have you done?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:8 - Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:15 - The wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this writing and tell me what it means, but they could not explain it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:22 - “But you, Belshazzar, his son,[fn] have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23 - Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:2 - with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:4 - At this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:5 - Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:8 - Now, Your Majesty, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:12 - So they went to the king and spoke to him about his royal decree: “Did you not publish a decree that during the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human being except to you, Your Majesty, would be thrown into the lions’ den?” The king answered, “The decree stands—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:13 - Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, Your Majesty, or to the decree you put in writing. He still prays three times a day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:15 - Then the men went as a group to King Darius and said to him, “Remember, Your Majesty, that according to the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or edict that the king issues can be changed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:17 - A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that Daniel’s situation might not be changed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:18 - Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:22 - My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:23 - The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den. And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:24 - At the king’s command, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in and thrown into the lions’ den, along with their wives and children. And before they reached the floor of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:26 - “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:14 - He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
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