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אוֹ

o · or

Hebrew · Strong's H176 · Conjunction · Sounds like: o · 321 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • or H0176A 321
  • desire H0176B 0

Strong's dictionary

presumed to be the 'constructive' or genitival form of אַו ; short for אַוָּה; desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if; also, and, either, if, at the least, [idiom] nor, or, otherwise, then, whether.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
אוֹ 320 conj. or
1. sometimes implying a preference, nearly or rather
2. introducing a sentence, esp. a particular case under a general principle, or = or if
3. if perchance
4. once, with the juss. = except
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[אֵו] n.m. אוֹ, Kt Pr 31:4 desire, so Thes MV; but < Qr אֵי q.v.

Every occurrence

  1. Ezekiel 14:17 א֛וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;

  2. Ezekiel 14:19 א֛וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;

  3. Ezekiel 21:10 א֣וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.

  4. Ezekiel 46:12 אֽוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

    And when the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt-offering or peace-offerings as a freewill-offering unto Jehovah, one shall open for him the gate that looketh toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, as he doth on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

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