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

301. Ecclesiastes 2:19 א֣וֹ 'o · Small word: or

     And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

302. Ecclesiastes 11:6 אוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

     In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

303. 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.

304. 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.

305. 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.

306. 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.

307. 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.

308. Isaiah 7:11 א֖וֹ 'o · Small word: or

     Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

309. Isaiah 27:5 א֚וֹ 'o · Small word: or

     Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me.

310. Isaiah 41:22 א֥וֹ 'o · Small word: or

     Let them bring forth, and declare unto us what shall happen: declare ye the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

311. Isaiah 50:1 א֚וֹ 'o · Small word: or

     Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

312. Jeremiah 23:33 אֽוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

     And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? then shalt thou say unto them, What burden! I will cast you off, saith Jehovah.

313. Jeremiah 23:33 אֽוֹ־ 'ov- · Small word: or

     And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? then shalt thou say unto them, What burden! I will cast you off, saith Jehovah.

314. Jeremiah 40:5 א֠וֹ 'o · Small word: or

     Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, said he, to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wheresoever it seemeth right unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a present, and let him go.

315. 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;

316. 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;

317. 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.

318. 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.

319. Amos 3:12 א֣וֹ 'o · Small word: or

     Thus saith Jehovah: As the shepherd rescueth out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.

320. Malachi 1:8 א֚וֹ 'o · Small word: or

     And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil! and when ye offer the lame and sick, it is no evil! Present it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? saith Jehovah of hosts.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.