אוּלַי
Engelsk or not ?, if peradventure, if perchance
I GT 45 gange i den hebraiske tekst (BHSA)
Brown-Driver-Briggs
II. אוּלַי44 and (1 Mos 24,39) אֻלַי adverb (perhaps from אוֺ & לַי = לֵי, לֵא, as in לוּלֵא, = or not ?).
1. peradventure, perhaps; usually expressing a hope, as 1 Mos 16,2; 4 Mos 22,6; 4 Mos 22,11; 4 Mos 23,3; 1 Sam 6,5; Jer 20,10 but also a fear or doubt, as 1 Mos 27,12; Job 1,5, followed by לֹא 1 Mos 24,5; 1 Mos 24,39 in mockery Es 47,12; Jer 51,8.
2. followed by another clause ἀσυνδέτως, it, it expresses vir-tually the protasis = if peradventure 1 Mos 18,24; 1 Mos 18,28 (compare v1 Mos 18,29–32) Hos 8,7 the blade shall yield no meal; אוּלַי יַעֲשֶׂה זָרִים יִבְלָעֻהוּ if perchance it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
3. in 4 Mos 22,33 לוּלֵי (q.v) must be read; unless she had turned aside from me, surely, etc.
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Alle 44 vers
Versnumrene følger den hebraiske tekst og kan i enkelte bøger (fx Salmerne) afvige med et vers fra de danske.
Kilder: F. Brown, S.R. Driver og C.A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain, i Eliran Wongs udgave (marvel.bible) med tekst fra Tim Morton (Bible Analyzer) og bibelhenvisninger ved Stephen Ku. Forekomster og ordklasser: BHSA (ETCBC). Lemma og translitteration: Strong's hebraiske ordliste.