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Lexicon :: Strong's H194 - 'ûlay

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אוּלַי
Transliteration
'ûlay
Pronunciation
oo-lah'ee
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 46

Strong’s Definitions

אוּלַי ʼûwlay, oo-lah'ee; or (shortened) אֻלַי ʼulay; from H176; if not; hence perhaps:—if so be, may be, peradventure, unless.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's H194 in the following manner: if (so be), may (be), peradventure, unless.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's H194 in the following manner: if (so be), may (be), peradventure, unless.

  1. perhaps, peradventure

  2. if peradventure

  3. unless

  4. suppose

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אוּלַי ʼûwlay, oo-lah'ee; or (shortened) אֻלַי ʼulay; from H176; if not; hence perhaps:—if so be, may be, peradventure, unless.
STRONGS H194: Abbreviations
II. אוּלַי 44 and (Genesis 24:39) אֻלַי adverb (perhaps from אוֺ & לַי = לֵי, לֵא, as in לוּלֵא, = or not ?).
1. peradventure, perhaps; usually expressing a hope, as Genesis 16:2; Numbers 22:6, 11; Numbers 23:3; 1 Samuel 6:5; Jeremiah 20:10; but also a fear or doubt, as Genesis 27:12; Job 1:5, followed by לֹא Genesis 24:5, 39; in mockery Isaiah 47:12; Jeremiah 51:8.
2. followed by another clause ἀσυνδέτως, it, it expresses virtually the protasis = if peradventure Genesis 18:24, 28 (compare Genesis 18:29-32) Hosea 8:7 the blade shall yield no meal; יִבְלָעֻהוּ זָרִים יַעֲשֶׂה אוּלַי if perchance it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
3. in Numbers 22:33 לוּלֵי (which see) must be read; unless she had turned aside from me, surely, etc.

אֻלַיִ Genesis 24:39 see אוּלַי above.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

16:2; 18:24; 18:28; 18:29; 18:30; 18:31; 18:32; 24:5; 24:39; 24:39; 24:39; 27:12

Numbers

22:6; 22:11; 22:33; 23:3

1 Samuel

6:5

Job

1:5

Isaiah

47:12

Jeremiah

20:10; 51:8

Hosea

8:7

H194

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Strong's Number H194 matches the Hebrew אוּלַי ('ûlay),
which occurs 45 times in 44 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - And Sara said to Abram, Behold, the Lord has restrained me from bearing, go therefore in to my maid, that I may get children for myself through her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sara.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - Should there be fifty righteous in the city, wilt thou destroy them? wilt thou not spare the whole place for the sake of the fifty righteous, if they be in it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, wilt thou destroy the whole city because of the five wanting? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - And he continued to speak to him still, and said, But if there should be found there forty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the forty's sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I shall speak? but if there be found there thirty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the thirty's sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - And he said, Since I am able to speak to the Lord, what if there should be found there twenty? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there twenty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I speak yet once? but if there should be found there ten? And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - And the servant said to him, Shall I carry back thy son to the land whence thou camest forth, [fn]if haply the woman should not be willing to return with me to this land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39 - And I said to my master, Haply the woman will not go with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - Peradventure my father may feel me, and I shall be before him as one ill-intentioned, and I shall bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - (LXX 32:21) and ye shall say, Behold thy servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his countenance with the gifts going before his presence, and afterwards I will behold his face, for peradventure he will accept [fn]me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:12 - And take double money in your hands, and the money that was returned in your sacks, carry back with you, lest peradventure it is a mistake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 - And it came to pass after the morrow had begun, that Moses said to the people, Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up to God, that I may make atonement for your sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - And now come, curse me this people, for it is stronger than we; if we may be able to smite some of them, and I will cast them out of the land: for I know that whomsoever thou dost bless, they are blessed, and whomsoever thou dost curse, they are cursed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11 - Behold, a people has come forth out of Egypt, and has covered the face of the land, and it has encamped near to me; and now come, curse it for me, if indeed I shall be able to smite it, and cast it out of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - And if she had not turned out of the way, surely now, I should have slain thee, and should have saved her alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go and see if God [fn]will appear to me and meet me, and the word which he shall shew me, I will report to thee. And Balac stood by his sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - And Balac said to Balaam, Come and I will remove thee to another place, if it shall please God, and curse me them from thence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:7 - And the children of Israel said to the Chorrhæan, Peradventure thou dwellest amongst us; and how should I make a covenant with thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - And now I ask of thee this mountain, as the Lord said in that day; for thou heardest this word on that day; and now the Enakim are there, cities great and strong: if then the Lord should be with me, I will utterly destroy them, as the Lord said to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:5 - According to the number of the lords of the Philistines, five golden emerods, for the plague was on you, and on your rulers, and on the people; and golden mice, the likeness of the mice that destroy your land: and ye shall give glory to the Lord, that he may lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6 - And the young man said to him, Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and the man is of high repute; all that he shall speak will surely come to pass: now then let us go, that he may tell us our way on which we have set out.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6 - And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour, Come, let us go over to [fn]Messab of these uncircumcised, if peradventure the Lord may do something for us; for the Lord is not straitened to save by many or by few.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - And now whereas I came to speak this word to my lord the king, the reason is that the people will see me, and thy handmaid will say, Let one now speak to my lord the king, if peradventure the king will perform the request of his handmaid;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - If by any means the Lord may look on my affliction, thus shall he return me good for his cursing this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - And Achaab said to Abdiu, Come, and let us go through the land, and to the fountains of water, and to the brooks, if by any means we may find grass, and may save the horses and mules, and so they will not perish from the tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:27 - And it was noon, and Eliu the Thesbite mocked them, and said, Call with a loud voice, for he is a god; for he is meditating, or else perhaps he is [fn]engaged in business, or perhaps he is asleep, and [fn]is to be awaked.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31 - (LXX 21:31) And he said to his servants, I know that the kings of Israel are [fn]merciful kings: let us now put sackcloth upon our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and let us go forth to the king of Israel, if by any means he will save our souls alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4 - [fn]Peradventure the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rapsakes, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God and to revile him with the words which the Lord thy God has heard: and thou shalt [fn]offer thy prayer for the remnant that is found.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - And when the days of the banquet were completed, Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning, and offered sacrifices for them, according to their number, and one calf for a sin-offering for their souls: for Job said, Lest peradventure my sons have thought evil in their minds against God. Thus then Job did continually.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4 - May the Lord thy God hear the words of Rabsaces, which the king of the Assyrians has sent, to reproach the living God, even to reproach with the words which the Lord thy God has heard: therefore thou shalt pray to thy Lord for these that are left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:12 - Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the abundance of thy sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth; if thou canst be profited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10 - For I have heard the reproach of many gathering round, saying, Conspire ye, and let us conspire together against him, even all his friends: watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2 - Enquire of the Lord for us; for the king of Babylon has risen up against us; if the Lord will do according to all his wonderful works, and the king shall depart from us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - (LXX 33:3) Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:3 - (LXX 43:3) Perhaps the house of Juda will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to them; that they may turn from their evil way; and so I will be merciful to their iniquities and their sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7 - (LXX 43:7) Peradventure their supplication will come before the Lord, and they will turn from their evil way: for great is the wrath and the anger of the Lord, which he has pronounced against this people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:8 - (LXX 28:8) And Babylon is fallen suddenly, and is broken to pieces: lament for her; take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means she may be healed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:3 - Thou therefore, son of man, prepare thyself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and thou shalt be led into captivity from thy place into another place in their sight; that they may see that it is a provoking house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 - for they sowed blighted seed, and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15 - We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore ye judgment in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6 - And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snorest thou? arise, and call upon thy God, that God may save us, and we perish not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:3 - Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth; do judgment, and seek justice, and answer accordingly; that ye may be hid in the day of the wrath of the Lord.
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