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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.

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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. Judges 21:22 א֨וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be guilty.

  2. 1 Samuel 2:14 א֣וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

  3. 1 Samuel 2:14 א֤וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

  4. 1 Samuel 2:14 א֣וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

  5. 1 Samuel 13:19 א֥וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

  6. 1 Samuel 14:6 א֥וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Jehovah will work for us; for there is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few.

  7. 1 Samuel 14:41 אוֹ 'o · Small word: or

    Therefore Saul said unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, Show the right. And Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot; but the people escaped.

  8. 1 Samuel 20:2 א֚וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    And he said unto him, Far from it; thou shalt not die: behold, my father doeth nothing either great or small, but that he discloseth it unto me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

  9. 1 Samuel 20:10 א֛וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answer thee roughly?

  10. 1 Samuel 21:3 א֖וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.

  11. 1 Samuel 21:8 אוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

    And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

  12. 1 Samuel 22:15 א֥וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    Have I to-day begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute anything unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.

  13. 1 Samuel 26:10 אֽוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

    And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

  14. 1 Samuel 26:10 א֧וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

  15. 1 Samuel 29:3 אוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

    Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who hath been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away unto me unto this day?

  16. 2 Samuel 2:21 א֣וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

  17. 2 Samuel 3:35 א֥וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David sware, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.

  18. 2 Samuel 17:9 א֖וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

  19. 2 Samuel 18:13 אֽוֹ־ 'o- · Small word: or

    Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hid from the king), then thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.

  20. 1 Kings 8:46 א֥וֹ 'o · Small word: or

    If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near;

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