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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 BoxDan 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5 - The king replied to the Chaldeans, “The command [fn]from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be [fn]torn limb from limb and your houses will be turned into a rubbish heap.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:9 - that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only one [fn]decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt [fn]words before me until the [fn]situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, so that I may know that you can declare to me its interpretation.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10 - The Chaldeans answered [fn]the king and said, “There is no H3809 person on earth who could declare the matter [fn]to the king, because no H3809 great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any soothsayer priest, sorcerer, or Chaldean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11 - “Moreover, the thing which the king demands is difficult, and there is no H3809 one else who could declare it [fn]to the king except gods, whose dwelling place is not with mortal flesh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:18 - so that they might request compassion from the God of heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:27 - Daniel answered before the king and said, “As for the secret about which the king has inquired, neither H3809 wise men, sorcerers, soothsayer priests, nor diviners are able to declare it to the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:30 - “But as for me, this secret has not been revealed to me [fn]for any wisdom [fn]residing in me more than in any other living person, but for the purpose of making the interpretation known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your [fn]mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:34 - “You [fn]continued watching until a stone was broken off without H3809 hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:35 - “Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed to pieces [fn]all at the same time, and they were like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the entire earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:43 - “In that you saw the iron mixed with [fn]common clay, they will combine with one another [fn]in [fn]their descendants; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not combine with pottery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:44 - “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never H3809 be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be [fn]left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:45 - “Just as you saw that a stone was broken off from the mountain without H3809 hands, and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place [fn]in the future; so the dream is certain and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:6 - “But whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be thrown into the middle of a furnace of blazing fire.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:11 - “But whoever does not fall down and worship shall be thrown into the middle of a furnace of blazing fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:12 - “There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon, namely Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. These men, O king, have disregarded H3809 you; they do not serve your gods, nor H3809 do they worship the golden statue which you have set up.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:14 - Nebuchadnezzar began speaking and said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that you do not serve my gods, nor H3809 worship the golden statue that I have set up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15 - “Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, [fn]lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe, and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall down and worship the statue that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will [fn]immediately be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can rescue you from my hands?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:16 -

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego replied to the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we are not in need of an answer to give you concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:18 - “But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods nor H3809 worship the golden statue that you have set up.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24 -

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astounded and stood up quickly; he said to his counselors, “Was it not three men that we threw bound into the middle of the fire?” They replied to the king, “Absolutely, O king.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:25 - He responded, “Look! I see four men untied and walking about in the middle of the fire [fn]unharmed H3809, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:27 - The satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had no H3809 [fn]effect on [fn]the bodies of these men, nor H3809 was the hair of their heads singed, nor H3809 were their [fn]trousers [fn]damaged, nor H3809 had even the smell of fire touched them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:28 -

Nebuchadnezzar responded and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent His angel and rescued His servants who put their trust in Him, [fn]violating the king’s command, and surrendered their bodies rather H3809 than H3809 serve or worship any god except their own God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:29 - “Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or population of any language that speaks anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego shall be torn limb from limb and their houses made a rubbish heap, because there is no H3809 other god who is able to save in this way.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:7 - “Then the soothsayer priests, the sorcerers, the [fn]Chaldeans, and the diviners came in and I related the dream [fn]to them, but they could not make its interpretation known to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:9 - ‘Belteshazzar, chief of the soothsayer priests, since I know that a spirit of the holy gods is in you and no H3809 secret baffles you, tell me the visions of my dream which I have seen, along with its interpretation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:18 -

‘This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, tell me its interpretation, since none H3809 of the wise men of my kingdom is able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able, because a spirit of the holy gods is in you.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:30 - “The king began speaking and was saying, ‘Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal [fn]residence by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:35 -

“All the inhabitants of the earth are of no H3809 account,

But He does according to His will among the army of heaven

And among the inhabitants of earth;

And no H3809 one can [fn]fend off His hand

Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:8 - Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or make known its interpretation to the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:15 - “Just now the wise men and the sorcerers were brought in before me to read this inscription and make its interpretation known to me, but they could not declare the interpretation of the [fn]message.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:22 - “Yet you, his [fn]son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23 - but you have risen up against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor H3809 hear, nor H3809 understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:2 - and over them, three commissioners (of whom Daniel was one), so that these satraps would be accountable to them, and that the king would not [fn]suffer loss.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:4 - Then the commissioners and satraps began trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel regarding [fn]government affairs; but they could find no H3809 ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, because he was trustworthy, and no H3809 negligence or corruption was to be found in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:5 - Then these men said, “We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him regarding the law of his God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:8 - “Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document so that it will not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which [fn]may not be revoked.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:12 - Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king’s injunction: “Did you not sign an injunction that any person who offers a prayer to any god or person besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be thrown into the lions’ den?” The king replied, “The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which [fn]may not be revoked.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:13 - Then they responded and spoke before the king, “Daniel, who is one of the [fn]exiles from Judah, pays no H3809 attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps offering his prayer three times a day.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:15 - Then these men came [fn]by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Recognize, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no H3809 injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:17 - And 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 signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing H3809 would be changed regarding Daniel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:18 - Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no H3809 entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:22 - “My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not harmed me, since [fn]I was found innocent before Him; and also [fn]toward you, O king, I have committed no H3809 crime.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:23 - Then the king was very glad and gave orders for Daniel to be lifted up out of the den. So Daniel was lifted up out of the den, and no H3809 injury whatever was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:24 - The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had [fn]maliciously accused Daniel, and they threw them, their children, and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:26 - “[fn]I issue a decree that in all the realm of my kingdom people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel;

For He is the living God and enduring forever,

And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed,

And His dominion will be [fn]forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:14 -

“And to Him was given dominion,

Honor, and [fn]a kingdom,

So that all the peoples, nations, and populations of all [fn]languages

Might serve Him.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion

Which will not pass away;

And His kingdom is one

Which will not be destroyed.

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