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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 Box Gen 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. Please go in to my servant-woman; perhaps H194 I will [fn]obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - “Suppose H194 there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not [fn]spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - “Suppose H194 the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the whole city because of five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Then he spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose H194 forty are found there?” And He said, “I will not do it on account of the forty.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - Then he said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak; suppose H194 thirty are found there?” And He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - And he said, “Now behold, I have [fn]ventured to speak to the Lord; suppose H194 twenty are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the twenty.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - Then he said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once; suppose H194 ten are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the ten.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - And the servant said to him, “Suppose H194 the woman is not willing to follow me to this land; should I indeed take your son back to the land from where you came?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39 - “Then I said to my master, ‘Suppose H194 the woman does not follow me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - “Perhaps H194 my father will feel me, then I will be as a mocker in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - and you shall say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob also is behind us.’” For he said, “I will appease his face with the present that goes before me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps H194 he will lift up my face.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:12 - “Now take double the money in your hand, and take back in your hand the money that was put back in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps H194 it was a mistake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 -

Now it happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, “You yourselves have [fn]committed a great sin; but now I am going up to Yahweh, perhaps H194 I can make atonement for your sin.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - “So now, please come, curse this people for me since they are too [fn]mighty for me; perhaps H194 I may be able to strike them down and drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11 - ‘Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt, and they cover the surface of the land; now come, curse them for me; perhaps H194 I may be able to fight against them and drive them out.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - “And the donkey saw me and turned aside from me these three times. If H194 it had not turned aside from me, I would surely have killed you just now, and let it live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps H194 Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a bare hill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 -

Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps H194 it will be right in the eyes of God that you curse them for me from there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:7 - Then the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps H194 you are living [fn]within our land; how then shall we cut a covenant with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - “So now, give me this hill country about which Yahweh spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps H194 Yahweh will be with me, and I will dispossess them as Yahweh has spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:5 - “So you shall make likenesses of your tumors and likenesses of your mice that bring the land to ruin, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps H194 He will ease His hand from you, your gods, and your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6 - But he said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and the man is held in honor; all that he says surely comes true. Now let us go there, perhaps H194 he can tell us about our journey on which we have gone.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6 -

Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps H194 Yahweh will work for us, for Yahweh is not restrained to save by many or by few.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - “So now, [fn]the reason I have come to speak this word to my lord the king is that the people have made me afraid; so your servant-woman said, ‘Let me now speak to the king, perhaps H194 the king will perform the word of his maidservant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - “Perhaps H194 Yahweh will look on my affliction and [fn]return good to me instead of his cursing this day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps H194 we will find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to cut down some of the cattle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:27 - Now it happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god; either he is occupied or relieving himself, or is on a journey, or perhaps H194 he is asleep and needs to be awakened.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31 -

Then his servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are kings of lovingkindness, please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps H194 he will preserve your [fn]life.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4 - ‘Perhaps H194 Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to [fn]reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore, lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - Now it happened when the days of feasting had completed their cycle, that Job would send and set them apart as holy. And he would rise up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps H194 my sons have sinned and [fn]cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4 - ‘Perhaps H194 Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to [fn]reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore, lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:12 -

“Stand fast now in your spells

And in your many sorceries

With which you have labored from your youth;

Perhaps H194 you will be able to profit;

Perhaps H194 you may cause trembling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10 -

For I have heard the bad report of many,

“Terror on every side!

Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!”

[fn]All my trusted friends,

Keeping watch for my fall, say:

“Perhaps H194 he will be [fn]deceived, so that we may prevail against him

And take our revenge on him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2 - “Please inquire of Yahweh on our behalf, for [fn]Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warring against us; perhaps H194 Yahweh will deal with us according to all His [fn]wonderful acts, so that the enemy will go up from us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - ‘Perhaps H194 they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may [fn]relent of the evil which I am devising to [fn]bring against them because of the evil of their deeds.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:3 - “Perhaps H194 the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I devise [fn]to bring on them, in order that every man will turn from his evil way; then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7 - “Perhaps H194 their supplication will [fn]come before Yahweh, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has spoken against this people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:8 -

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;

Wail over her!

Take [fn]balm for her pain;

Perhaps H194 she may be healed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:29 -

Let him [fn]put his mouth in the dust;

Perhaps H194 there is hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:3 - “Now as for you, son of man, prepare for yourself baggage for exile and go into exile by day in their sight; even go into exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps H194 they will see, though they are a rebellious house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 -

For they sow the wind,

And they reap the whirlwind.

The standing grain has no growth;

It makes no flour.

Should H194 it make anything, strangers would swallow it up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15 -

Hate evil, love good,

And set justice at the [fn]gate!

Perhaps H194 Yahweh God of hosts

May be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6 - So the captain came near to him and said to him, “How is it that you are deeply sleeping? Arise, call on your god. Perhaps H194 your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:3 -

Seek Yahweh,

All you humble of the [fn]earth

Who have worked His justice;

Seek righteousness, seek humility.

Perhaps H194 you will be hidden

In the day of Yahweh’s anger.

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