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lo marks the negation of actions, commands, states, and questions in the Bible.
As a negative particle, lo negates what a clause asserts, commands, asks, or describes: David is told not to go up in 1 Chronicles 14:14, God states that David will not build the house in 1 Chronicles 17:4, and genealogical notices report that men had no sons in 1 Chronicles 23:17.
Senses in use
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Clause-level negation · dominant
The supplied morphology identifies each form as a negative particle. In 1 Chronicles 14:14 the APB renders a prohibition, “You shall not go up after them”; in 1 Chronicles 17:4 it renders the statement, “You shall not build a house for me to live in”; and in 1 Chronicles 23:17 it renders the absence of descendants, “Eliezer had no other sons.” It also occurs in a rhetorical question in 1 Chronicles 22:18, where the APB renders, “Is not the LORD your God with you?”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB expresses the particle through English negatives and negative constructions such as “not,” “no,” “never,” and “shall not.” Those renderings show the clauses' negation rather than a fixed English equivalent for every token.