BDB Aramaic, לָא

לָא (לָה †Dn 4:32) adv. not (BH לא; Aramaic of Têma, Egyptian, etc., לא; Nerab ל (Lzb ³⁰¹ Cook^{Gl. 67}); 𝔗 לָא; Syriac ܠܴܐ );—not Je 10:11; Dn 2:5, 9, 10, etc.; before a ptcp. (so rarely in BH, 1 b c), 2:27, 43; 3:16; 4:4, 6, 15 +, so v 32 וְכָל־דָּאְרֵי אַרְעָא כְּלָה חֲשִׁיבִין are as men not accounted of (so Bev Behrm Marti, cf. Is 53:3 𝔗 בסירין ולא חשׁיבין; > most ‘accounted as nothing,’ for which no analogy, yet cf. ψ 39:6 𝔗); sq. אִיתַי, v. אִיתַי. With inf. and לְ Dn 6:9 דִּי לָא לִהַשְׁנָיָה which it is not to alter = which is not to be altered (cf. v 16), Ezr 6:8 (K^{§ 67, 1} Dr^{§ 202, 2}; cf. Is 35:6 𝔗, D^{Aramaic Dialektproben, p. 1}). With interr. הֲלָא †Dn 3:24; 4:27; 6:13.