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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. Numbers 35:22 אוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

    But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,

  2. Numbers 35:23 א֣וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

  3. Deuteronomy 4:16 א֥וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

  4. Deuteronomy 4:32 א֖וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

  5. Deuteronomy 4:34 א֣וֹ׀ 'o · Small word: or

    Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

  6. Deuteronomy 13:1 א֖וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder,

  7. Deuteronomy 13:1 א֥וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder,

  8. Deuteronomy 13:3 א֛וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

  9. Deuteronomy 13:5 א֣וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he hath spoken rebellion against Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which Jehovah thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

  10. Deuteronomy 13:6 אֽוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

    If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

  11. Deuteronomy 13:6 אֽוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

    If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

  12. Deuteronomy 13:6 א֣וֹ׀ 'o · Small word: or

    If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

  13. Deuteronomy 13:6 א֧וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

  14. Deuteronomy 13:7 א֖וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

  15. Deuteronomy 14:21 א֤וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

  16. Deuteronomy 15:12 א֚וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

  17. Deuteronomy 15:21 א֣וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    And if it have any blemish, as if it be lame or blind, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto Jehovah thy God.

  18. Deuteronomy 17:2 אוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

    If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

  19. Deuteronomy 17:3 א֣וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

  20. Deuteronomy 17:3 א֛וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

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