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Lexicon :: Strong's H176 - 'av

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אַו
Transliteration
'av
Pronunciation
o
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Part of Speech
conjunction
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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 44 times in 30 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - "Speak to the children of Yisra'el: When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the LORD, and that soul is guilty;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:30 - or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the Kohen shall execute on her all this law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2 - "Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them: When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazir, to separate himself to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:10 - On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the Kohen, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - "Say to the children of Yisra'el, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Pesach to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:21 - Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Yisra'el remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8 - The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - All the children of Yisra'el murmured against Moshe and against Aharon: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Mitzrayim! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:3 - and will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:5 - and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:6 - Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of an efah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:8 - When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings to the LORD;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:11 - Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:14 - If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:17 - But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - Bil`am answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:13 - If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind; what the LORD speaks, that will I speak?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:6 - If she be married to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10 - If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:14 - But if her husband altogether hold his shalom at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her: he has established them, because he held his shalom at her in the day that he heard them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:20 - If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21 - or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:22 - But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;
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