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Lexicon :: Strong's H176 - 'av

Aa
אַו
Transliteration
'av
Pronunciation
o
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Part of Speech
conjunction
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 36

Strong’s Definitions

אוֹ ʼôw, o; presumed to be the 'constructive' or genitival form of אַו ʼav ; short for H185; desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if:—also, and, either, if, at the least, × nor, or, otherwise, then, whether.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 261x

The KJV translates Strong's H176 in the following manner: also (1x), and (2x), at the least (1x), either (7x), if (1x), nor (2x), or (236x), Or if (2x), Otherwise (1x), should (1x), whether (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 261x
The KJV translates Strong's H176 in the following manner: also (1x), and (2x), at the least (1x), either (7x), if (1x), nor (2x), or (236x), Or if (2x), Otherwise (1x), should (1x), whether (7x).

  1. or, rather

    1. implying that the latter choice is preferred

    2. or if, introducing an example to be seen under a particular principle

    3. (in series) either...or, whether...or

    4. if perchance

    5. except, or else

  2. whether, not the least, if, otherwise, also, and, then

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אוֹ ʼôw, o; presumed to be the 'constructive' or genitival form of אַו ʼav ; short for H185; desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if:—also, and, either, if, at the least, × nor, or, otherwise, then, whether.
STRONGS H176: Abbreviations
אוֺ 320 (أَوْ, vaf , ኦው፡), conjunction or (whether aut or vel).
1. Genesis 24:49; Genesis 31:43; Exodus 4:11; Songs 2:9; Leviticus 13:24; Numbers 5:30 + often (especially in laws); sometimes implying a preference, nearly = or rather Genesis 24:55 יָמִים אוֺ עָשׂוֺר a few days or ten Judges 18:19; 1 Samuel 29:3. Prefixed to the first as well as to the second alternative (rare) either (whether)... or Leviticus 5:1; Leviticus 13:48, 51; = or, if not Ezekiel 21:15 (si vera lectio) Ke Malachi 2:17; Job 16:3; Job 22:11.
2. introducing a sentence, especially a particular case under a general principle, or = or if Exodus 21:31 אוֺ־בֵן יִגַּח וג׳ or if he gore a son, etc. Exodus 21:36; Leviticus 4:23, 28 (see Di) Leviticus 5:21 [Leviticus 6:2]; Leviticus 5:22 [Leviticus 6:3]; Leviticus 25:49b; Numbers 5:14; 2 Samuel 18:13 or if I had dealt falsely against his life, then, etc., Ezekiel 14:17, 19 or if I send, etc.
3. if perchance, 1 Samuel 20:10 if perchance thy father answer thee with something hard, Leviticus 26:41.
4. once, with the jussive (as in Arabic with the subjunctive see Dr§ 175) = except: Isaiah 27:5 I would burn them together, אוֺ יַחֲזֵק בְּמָעֻזִּי or else let him take hold (= except he take hold) of my strong-hold, etc.

[אַו] noun masculine construct אוֺ, Kt Proverbs 31:4 desire, so Thes MV; but < Qr אֵי which see H335.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:49; 24:55; 31:43

Exodus

4:11; 21:31; 21:36

Leviticus

4:23; 4:28; 5:1; 6:2; 6:3; 13:24; 13:48; 13:51; 25:49; 26:41

Numbers

5:14; 5:30

Judges

18:19

1 Samuel

20:10; 29:3

2 Samuel

18:13

Job

16:3; 22:11

Proverbs

31:4

Song of Songs

2:9

Isaiah

27:5

Ezekiel

14:17; 14:19; 21:15

Malachi

2:17

H176

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Strong's Number H176 matches the Hebrew אַו ('av),
which occurs 321 times in 218 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 24:49–Lev 11:32)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:49 - And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - Then Laban and Bethuel said in answer, This is the Lord's doing: it is not for us to say Yes or No to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then she may go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:19 - My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11 - And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who takes away a man's voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13 - He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:4 - If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6 - Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20 - If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:21 - But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:29 - But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:31 - If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32 - If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:33 - If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:36 - But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:5 - If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:6 - If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:7 - If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10 - If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:14 - If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4 - If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they go into the Tent of meeting or come near the altar, when they are doing the work of the holy place, so that they may be free from any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him and his seed after him for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10 - And if his offering is of the flock, a burned offering of sheep or goats, let him give a male without a mark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:14 - And if his offering to the Lord is a burned offering of birds, then he is to make his offering of doves or of young pigeons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6 - And if what he gives for a peace-offering to the Lord is of the flock, let him give a male or female, without any mark on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:23 - When the sin which he has done is made clear to him, let him give for his offering a goat, a male without any mark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:28 - When the sin which he has done is made clear to him, then he is to give for his offering a goat, a female without any mark, for the sin which he has done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 - And if anyone does wrong by saying nothing when he is put under oath as a witness of something he has seen or had knowledge of, then he will be responsible:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - Or if he becomes unclean through touching unconsciously any unclean thing of man, whatever it may be, when it is made clear to him he will be responsible:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - Or if anyone, without thought, takes an oath to do evil or to do good, whatever he says without thought, with an oath, having no knowledge of what he is doing; when it becomes clear to him, he will be responsible for any of these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:6 - And take to the Lord the offering for the wrong which he has done, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away his sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - And if he has not money enough for a lamb, then let him give, for his offering to the Lord, two doves or two young pigeons; one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - But if he has not enough money for two doves or two young pigeons, then let him give, for the sin he has done, the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, for a sin-offering; let him put no oil on it, and no perfume, for it is a sin-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:3 - Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4 - Causing sin to come on him, then he will have to give back the thing he took by force or got by cruel acts, or the goods which were put in his care or the thing he came on by chance,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:5 - Or anything about which he took a false oath; he will have to give it all back, with the addition of a fifth of its value, to him whose property it is, when he has been judged to be in the wrong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:16 - But if his offering is made because of an oath or given freely, it may be taken as food on the day when it is offered; and the rest may be used up on the day after:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - The dead body of any of these, falling on anything, will make that thing unclean; if it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or bag, whatever it is, if it is used for any purpose, it will have to be put into water, and will be unclean till evening; after that it will be clean.

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