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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 - Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the eretz, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - Or has God tried 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 the LORD your God did for you in Mitzrayim before your eyes?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1 - If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3 - you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 - That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the midst of 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 bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7 - of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the eretz even to the other end of the eretz;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:21 - If it have any blemish, as if it be lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:2 - If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3 - and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of the sky, which I have not commanded;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:5 - then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:6 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the Kohen who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:15 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1 - You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:4 - You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6 - If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:3 - If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 - You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22 - Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
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