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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 34 times in 24 verses in 'Deu' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:16 - So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1 - If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3 - Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 - And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7 - Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:21 - But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:2 - If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3 - By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:5 - Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:6 - On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - And any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to the priest whose place is there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, is to be put to death: you are to put away the evil from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:15 - One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1 - If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:4 - If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6 - If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:3 - And if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she was married;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 - Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22 - Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;
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