Strong's #3863: luw' (pronounced loo)

or lu {loo}; or luw {loo}; a conditional particle; if; by implication (interj. as a wish) would that!:--if (haply), peradventure, I pray thee, though, I would, would God (that).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / / ּ

lû' / lû

1) if, oh that!, if only!

1a) if (unlikely condition)

1b) if only!, oh that!, would that!

Part of Speech: conjunction

Relation: a conditional particle

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Genesis 17:18: "said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before"
Genesis 23:13: "But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field;"
Genesis 30:34: "And Laban said, Behold, I would according to thy word."
Genesis 50:15: "was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us"
Numbers 14:2: "congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or"
Numbers 14:2: "in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!"
Numbers 20:3: "Moses, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before"
Numbers 22:29: "unto the ass, Because me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for"
Deuteronomy 32:29: " O that they were wise, that they understood this, their latter end!"
Joshua 7:7: "to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side"
Judges 8:19: "as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay"
Judges 13:23: "But his wife said unto him, If the LORD to kill us, he would not have received"
1 Samuel 14:30: "How much more, if haply if haply the people had eaten freely"
2 Samuel 18:12: "said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver"
2 Samuel 19:6: "this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died"
Job 6:2: " Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity in the balances together!"
Job 16:4: "I also could speak as ye do: if were in my soul's stead,"
Psalms 81:13: " Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel in my ways!"
Isaiah 48:18: " O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves"
Isaiah 64:1: " Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, might flow down at thy presence,"
Ezekiel 14:15: " If I cause noisome beasts to pass and they spoil it, so that it be desolate,"
Micah 2:11: " If a man walking in the spirit do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine"