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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.
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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 - Sarai said to Avram," See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Avram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are therein?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" 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 - He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:39

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Ya`akov, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:12 - and take double money in your hand, with the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was an oversight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 - It happened on the next day, that Moshe said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may 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, the people that is come out of Mitzrayim, it covers the surface of the eretz: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall 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 before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain you, and saved her alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Bil`am said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - Balak said to Bil`am, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:7 - The men of Yisra'el said to the Hivvi, What if you dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - Now therefore give me this hill-country, whereof the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the `Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD spoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:5 - Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Yisra'el: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6 - He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6 - Yonatan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us; for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing of me this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - Ach'av said to `Ovadyah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:27 - It happened at noon, that Eliyah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31 - His servants said to him, See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Yisra'el are merciful kings: let us, we pray you, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Yisra'el: peradventure he will save your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4 - It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Ravshakeh, whom the king of Ashshur his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Iyov sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Iyov said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Thus did Iyov continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4 - It may be the LORD your God will hear the words of Ravshakeh, whom the king of Ashshur his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:12 - Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10 - For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2 - Please inquire of the LORD for us; for Nevukhadretztzar king of Bavel makes war against us: peradventure the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:3 - It may be that the house of Yehudah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7 - It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:8 - Bavel is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:3 - Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, 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 will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15 - Hate evil, love good, And establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God Tzva'ot,, will be gracious to the remnant of Yosef."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6 - So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your gods! Maybe the gods will notice us, so that we won't perish."

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:3 - Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD's anger.
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