Lexicon :: Strong's H3863 - lû'

So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael were acceptable[fn] to you! ”

and said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “Listen to me, if you please. Let me pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

“Good,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said to one another, “If Joseph is holding a grudge against us, he will certainly repay us for all the suffering we caused him.”

All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD.

Balaam answered the donkey, “You made me look like a fool. If I had a sword in my hand, I’d kill you now! ”

If only they were wise, they would comprehend this;

they would understand their fate.

“Oh, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did you ever bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites for our destruction? If only we had been content to remain on the other side of the Jordan!

So he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother! As the LORD lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

But his wife said to him, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, he wouldn’t have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us, and he would not have shown us all these things or spoken to us like this.”

“How much better if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies! Then the slaughter of the Philistines would have been much greater.”

The man replied to Joab, “Even if I had the weight of a thousand pieces of silver[fn] in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son. For we heard the king command you, Abishai, and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for me.’[fn]

“by loving your enemies and hating those who love you! Today you have made it clear that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. In fact, today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would be fine with you![fn]

If only my grief could be weighed

and my devastation placed with it on the scales.

There is no mediator between us,

to lay his hand on both of us.

If you were in my place I could also talk like you.

I could string words together against you

and shake my head at you.

“If only my people would listen to me

and Israel would follow my ways,

If only you had paid attention to my commands.

Then your peace would have been like a river,

and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

If only you would tear the heavens open

and come down,

so that mountains would quake at your presence —

“Suppose I allow dangerous animals to pass through the land and depopulate it so that it becomes desolate, with no one passing through it for fear of the animals.

If a man comes

and utters empty lies ​—

“I will preach to you about wine and beer” —

he would be just the preacher for this people!