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# אִלּוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H432

**if** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

if [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/432/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִלּוּ: conj. if, though [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/432/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** conj. (often in Mishnah; Aramaic אִילּוּ, ܐܶܠܘܽ, ࠀࠋࠅ: from אִין, ܐܶܢ, and לוּ) if, though, only in late Heb., Ec 6:6 Est 7:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (26 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (20 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: if (2).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.6.6/#tree)

וְאִלּ֣וּ חָיָ֗ה אֶ֤לֶף שָׁנִים֙ פַּעֲמַ֔יִם וְטוֹבָ֖ה לֹ֣א רָאָ֑ה הֲלֹ֛א אֶל־מָק֥וֹם אֶחָ֖ד הַכֹּ֥ל הוֹלֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and if he.lived a.thousand years two.times and good not he.saw ? not to a.place one \[are\].(the) all going

*JPS 1917:* yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and enjoy no good; do not all go to one place?

[Esther 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.4/#tree)

כִּ֤י נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ אֲנִ֣י וְעַמִּ֔י לְהַשְׁמִ֖יד לַהֲר֣וֹג וּלְאַבֵּ֑ד וְ֠אִלּוּ לַעֲבָדִ֨ים וְלִשְׁפָח֤וֹת נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ הֶחֱרַ֔שְׁתִּי כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין הַצָּ֛ר שֹׁוֶ֖ה בְּנֵ֥זֶק הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) we.have.been.sold I and people my to annihilate to kill and to destroy and if to male.slaves and to female.slaves we.had.been.sold I.kept.quiet (dm) not the distress \[is\].equal for the.injury of the.king

*JPS 1917:* for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/432.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/432/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).