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Lexicon :: Strong's H194 - 'ûlay

Aa
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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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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 Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39 - And I said to my master, What if the woman will not come with me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - If by chance my father puts his hand on me, it will seem to him that I am tricking him, and he will put a curse on me in place of a blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:12 - And take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have been an error;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 - And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11 - See, the people who have come out of Egypt are covering all the earth: now, put a curse on this people for me, so that I may be able to make war on them, driving them out of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three times: if she had not gone to one side, I would certainly have put you to death and kept her safe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them from there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:7 - And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be that you are living among us; how then may we make an agreement with you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:5 - So make images of the growths caused by your disease and of the mice which are damaging your land; and give glory to the God of Israel: it may be that the weight of his hand will be lifted from you and from your gods and from your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6 - But the servant said to him, See now, in this town there is a man of God, who is highly honoured, and everything he says comes true: let us go there now; it may be that he will give us directions about our journey.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6 - And Jonathan said to his young servant who had his arms, Come, let us go over to the armies of these men who have no circumcision: it may be that the Lord will give us help, for there is no limit to his power; the Lord is able to give salvation by a great army or by a small band.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:27 - And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31 - Then his servants said to him, It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel; it may be that he will give you your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4 - It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so then make your prayer for the rest of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4 - It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:12 - Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10 - For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2 - Will you get directions from the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, is making war against us; it may be that the Lord will do something for us like all the wonders he has done, and make him go away from us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:3 - It may be that the people of Judah, hearing of all the evil which it is my purpose to do to them, will be turned, every man from his evil ways; so that they may have my forgiveness for their evil-doing and their sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7 - It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:8 - Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:29 - Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:3 - And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 - For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15 - Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6 - And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:3 - Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
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