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ל, twelfth letter; used as numeral 30 in postB Heb.

לְ S 3926 TWOT 1063 GK 4344 prep. to, for, in regard to ( Moab. Ph. ל , Aramaic לְ , ܠ ( l ), Arabic لِ ( li ), Ethiopic ˜ ( la ) Assyrian la in lapân = לִפְנֵי , Dl HWB 530) , before tone-syllables usually לָ ( ii . 276 f. ); with suff. לִי ; לְךָ , לְכָה •Gn 27:37 2 S 18:20 Is 3: 6, לָ˜ךְ ; f. לָךְ , לֵכִי •2 K 4:2 Ct 2:13 Kt (prob. N. Pal. dialect: cf. Syriac ܠܶܟܝ ( leky )); לֹו (15 times, according to Mas ., written incorrectly לֹא : v לֹא note ); לָהּ , לָחֿ •Nu 32:42 Zc 5:11 Ru 2:1 4; לָ˜נוּ ; לָכֶם ; לָכֶ˜נָה •Ez 13:18 ( לָכֶן does not occur); לָהֶם , poet. לָ˜מֹו (55 times, incl. a few cases where, according to many, it stands for לֹו : cf. Ges § 103, 2 a,
n.
; Di Is 44:1 5, 53:8 ), [also לָהֵ˜מָּה Je 14:1 6]; לָהֶן [ לָהֵן ( q.v. ) Ru 1:13 (×2), לָהֵ˜נָּה 5 times, v הֵמָּה ]. Prep. denoting direction (not properly motion , as אֶל ) towards , or reference to ; and hence used in many varied applications, in some of which the idea of direction predominates, in others that of reference ( cf. Giesebrecht Die Präp. Lamed, 1876 ):— 1. very often, with various classes of verbs, to, towards, for: viz. a. verbs of looking, listening, attending, waiting , etc., as האמין , התחֹלל , יחל , הוחיל , נכסף , כלה ( ψ 84:3 +), הטה אזן , לב ( שׁת ,


postB post-Biblical. Heb. Hebrew.

S Strongs Concordance TWOT Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament . GK Goodrick/Kohlenberger numbering system of the NIV Exhaustive Condordance . Ph. Phenician.
= equivalent, equals.

Dl Freidrich Delitzsch, Assyriches Handwörterbuch; E. König, Heb. Gram. prefixed, or added, or both, indicates All passages cited.
f. feminine, feminae. Kt K ethibh .

Pal. Palmyrene or Palestine, Palestinian, etc. cf. confer , compare.

Mas Masora. v verse. Ges W. Gesenius, Heb. Gram. ed. by Kautzsch; Di A. Dillmann.
q.v. quod vide.

×2 two times. + plus, denotes often that other passages, etc., might be cited. So also where the forms of verbs, nouns, and adjectives are illustrated by citations, near the beginning of


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