Strong's Hebrew · H305

אַחֲלַי

ʼachălay · akh-al-ah'ee

O that, would God.

Definition

would that!

Derivation

or אַחֲלֵי; prob from H253 (אָח) and a variation of H3863 (לוּא);

Appears 2 times in Scripture

2 Kings 5:3

She said to her mistress, “If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.”

Psalms 119:5

Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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