Lexical Definition

‎לָא‎ lâʼ (law) not ^A:Neg
(Aramaic) or לָה lâh (law); (Aramaic) (Daniel 4:32), corresponding to ‎לֹא‎

or even, neither, no(-ne, -r), (can-) not, as nothing, without.

• {not (the simple or abs. negation)
• by implication, no
• }

1) no, not, nothing

Extended Information

Aramaic of: לֹא

• Aramaic of lo (‎ל‎ֹ‎א‎ "not" לֹא)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Hebrew form: כִּי
‎לָא‎ (‎לָה‎ Dan 4:32*) adverb not (Biblical Hebrew ‎לא‎; Aramaic of Têma, Egyptian, etc., ‎לא‎; Nerab ‎ל‎ (Lzb³⁰¹ Cook^{G1. 67}); ᵑ7 ‎לָא‎; Syriac ); — not Jer 10:11; Dan 2:5; Dan 2:9; Dan 2:10, etc.; before a participle (so rarely in Biblical Hebrew, 1 b c), Dan 2:27; Dan 2:43; Dan 3:16; Dan 4:4*; Dan 4:6*; Dan 4:15* +, so v.Dan 4:32* ‎וְכָלדָּֿאְרֵי אַרְעָא כְּלָה חֲשׁיבִין‎; are as men not accounted of (so Bev Behrm Marti, compare Isa 53:8 ᵑ7 ‎בסירין ולא חשׁיבין‎; > most 'accounted as nothing,' for which no analogy, yet compare Ps 39:6* ᵑ7); followed by ‎אִיתַי‎, see ‎אִיתַי‎. With infinitive and ‎לְ‎ Dan 6:9* ‎דִּי לָא לִהַשְׁנָיָה‎ which it is not to alter = which is not to be altered (compare v.Dan 6:16*), Ezra 6:8 (K^{§ 67, 1} Dr^{§ 202, 2}.; compare Isa 35:6 ᵑ7, D^{Aramaic Dialektproben, p. 1}). With interr. ‎הֲלָא‎ Dan 3:24; Dan 4:27*; Dan 6:13*.

Also see: לָהֵן | הֵן | לֹא

II. ‎לָהֵן‎ conjunction except, but (from ‎לָא‎ and ‎הֵן‎ 'not if' (compare Hebrew ‎אם לא‎ Gen 24:38); so Nabataean and Egyptian Aramaic ‎להן‎ Cooke^{217, 219, 241} S-C^{Pap. C 6, 7} +; lâinnî, however Soc^{Arab. Dial.} see Marokko 44, Anm. 103; ᵑ7 ‎אִילָּהֵין‎ Gen 32:28*; Gen 43:3 and elsewhere); —

1. after a negative (= Biblical Hebrew ‎כִּי אִם‎, q. v.):
a. except Dan 2:11; Dan 3:28; Dan 6:6*; Dan 6:8*.
b. but (German sondern) Dan 2:30.

2. without a negative: however, but Ezra 5:12.

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