Numbers 16:14:2Num.16.14.W2TAB
לֹא
lo
“not”
- Transliteration
- LO
- Extended
- LOH
- IPA
- /loː/
Meaning by language
- English
- not
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
Tap any letter to hear its name and sound
Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
LO
- sentence
AF LO ha-ve-TA-nu el-E-RETS za-VAT kha-LAV u-de-VASH va-ti-TEN-LA-nu na-kha-LAT sa-DE va-KE-rem ha-ei-NEI ha-a-na-SHIM ha-HEM te-na-KER LO na-a-LE
Exegesis
This is reinforced by the repeated negation lo {לֹא | lōʼ} ‘not’, which frames the parallel clauses.
The vivid interrogative te-nak-qêr lō' na-ʿă-lêh {תְּנַקֵּר לֹא נַעֲלֶה | tǝ-nak-qêr lō' na-ʿă-lêh} uses the Piel imperfect ‘will you gouge out’ followed by the emphatic refusal ‘we will not go up’, merging rhetorical question and categorical denial to express communal defiance.
Root and etymology
א־מ־ר
“to say”
In context — Numbers 16:14
Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not go up.
About this coordinate
Numbers 16:14:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Numbers 16:14, so the Hebrew word לֹא (lo) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Num.16.14.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.14.W2.S1) and character.