אוֹ

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)

Every occurrence

1. Song of Solomon 2:7 א֖וֹ 'o · Small word: or

   I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

2. Song of Solomon 2:9 א֖וֹ 'o · Small word: or

   My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall; He looketh in at the windows; He glanceth through the lattice.

3. Song of Solomon 2:17 א֛וֹ 'o · Small word: or

   Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart Upon the mountains of Bether.

4. Song of Solomon 3:5 א֖וֹ 'o · Small word: or

   I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

5. Song of Solomon 8:14 א֚וֹ 'o · Small word: or

   Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.