Definition

if not

Etymology

or לוּלֵי; from H3863 (לוּא) and H3808 (לֹא);

Word family

• לוּא lûwʼ
• לֹא lôʼ

How the KJV renders it

• except
• had not
• if (...not)
• unless
• were it not that

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.