lu.le introduces a contrary-to-fact condition: without the stated person, action, or circumstance, a different result would follow.

Across the supplied clauses, lu.le is a conjunction introducing a condition whose absence would have produced a stated outcome: help prevents ruin, delay prevents return, or an action enables a result.

1. Introduces a contrary-to-fact condition · dominant

   The supplied forms are all tagged as conjunctions and introduce conditional clauses. In Genesis 31:42 the APB renders a condition in which the God of the speaker's father had been for him before the outcome of being sent away empty; in Judges 14:18 it renders a condition in which plowing with the speaker's heifer was necessary for finding the riddle. Psalm 94:17 similarly sets the LORD's help against the outcome that the speaker's soul would have dwelt in silence.

   Genesis 31:42Judges 14:18Psalm 94:17Genesis 43:102 Kings 3:14Psalm 106:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the conditional relation with “Unless,” “if you had not,” “were it not,” and “If the LORD had not.” These English forms show the clauses' overall conditional framing rather than a fixed one-word rendering.