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Lexicon :: Strong's H3809 - lā'

Aa
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.
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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 82 times in 60 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Ezr 4:13–Dan 6:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13 - The king may be certain that when the building of this town and its walls is complete, they will give no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:14 - Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16 - We give you word, that if the building of this town and its walls is made complete, there will be an end of your power in the country across the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:21 - Give an order now, that these men are to do nothing more, and that the building of the town is to be stopped, till I give an order.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:5 - But the eye of their God was on the chiefs of the Jews, and they did not make them give up working till the question had been put before Darius and an answer had come by letter about it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:16 - Then this same Sheshbazzar came and put the house of God in Jerusalem on its bases: and from that time till now the building has been going on, but it is still not complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:8 - Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:9 - And whatever they have need of, young oxen and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven, grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:22 - Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:24 - In addition, we make it clear to you, that it will be against the law to put any tax or payment in goods or forced payment on any of the priests or Levites, the music-makers, door-keepers, Nethinim, or any servants of this house of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:25 - And you, Ezra, by the wisdom of your God which is in you, are to put rulers and judges to have authority over all the people across the river who have knowledge of the laws of your God; and you are to give teaching to him who has no knowledge of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:26 - And if anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him, by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:11 - This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5 - The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:9 - That if you do not make my dream clear to me there is only one fate for you: for you have made ready false and evil words to say before me till the times are changed: so give me an account of the dream, and I will be certain that you are able to make the sense of it clear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10 - Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king's business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11 - The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:18 - So that they might make a request for the mercy of the God of heaven in the question of this secret; so that Daniel and his friends might not come to destruction with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:27 - Then Daniel said in answer to the king, No wise men, or users of secret arts, or wonder-workers, or readers of signs, are able to make clear to the king the secret he is searching for;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:30 - As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:34 - While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:35 - Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:43 - And as you saw the iron mixed with earth, they will give their daughters to one another as wives: but they will not be united one with another, even as iron is not mixed with earth.

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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 put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:45 - Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that by it the iron and the brass and the earth and the silver and the gold were broken to bits, a great God has given the king knowledge of what is to take place in the future: the dream is fixed, and its sense is certain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:6 - And anyone not falling down and worshipping will that same hour be put into a burning and flaming fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:11 - And anyone not falling down and worshipping is to be put into a burning and flaming fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:12 - There are certain Jews whom you have put over the business of the land of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men have not given attention to you, O King: they are not servants of your gods or worshippers of the gold image which you have put up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:14 - Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that you will not be servants of my god or give worship to the image of gold which I have put up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15 - Now if you are ready, on hearing the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, to go down on your faces in worship before the image which I have made, it is well: but if you will not give worship, that same hour you will be put into a burning and flaming fire; and what god is there who will be able to take you out of my hands?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:16 - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:18 - But if not, be certain, O King, that we will not be the servants of your gods, or give worship to the image of gold which you have put up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24 - Then King Nebuchadnezzar, full of fear and wonder, got up quickly, and said to his wise men, Did we not put three men in cords into the fire? and they made answer and said to the king, True, O King.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:25 - He made answer and said, Look! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not damaged; and the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:27 - And the captains, the chiefs, and the rulers, and the king's wise men who had come together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had no power, and not a hair of their heads was burned, and their coats were not changed, and there was no smell of fire about them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:28 - Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king's word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:29 - And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:7 - Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:9 - O Belteshazzar, master of the wonder-workers, because I am certain that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and you are troubled by no secret; this is the dream which I saw: make clear to me its sense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:18 - This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:30 - The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:35 - And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

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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 were not able to make out the writing or give the sense of it to the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:15 - And now the wise men, the users of secret arts, have been sent in before me for the purpose of reading this writing and making clear to me the sense of it: but they are not able to make clear the sense of the thing:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:22 - And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23 - But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:2 - And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:4 - Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:5 - Then these men said, We will only get a reason for attacking Daniel in connection with the law of his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:8 - Now, O King, put the order in force, signing the writing so that it may not be changed, like the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.

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