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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 320 times in 217 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 24:49–Lev 11:32)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:49 - If then ye will deal mercifully and justly with my lord, tell me, and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - And Laban and Bathuel answered and said, This matter has come forth from the Lord, we shall not be able to answer thee bad or good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - And her brethren and her mother said, Let the virgin remain with us about ten days, and after that she shall depart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the cattle are my cattle, and all things which thou seest are mine, and the property of my daughters; what shall I do to them to-day, or their children which they bore?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - If we brought back to thee out of the land of Chanaan the money which we found in our sacks, how should we steal silver or gold out of the house of thy lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:19 - Sir, thou askedst thy servants, saying, Have ye a father or a brother?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11 - And the Lord said to Moses, Who has given a mouth to man, and who has made the very hard of hearing, and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? have not I, God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - And they say to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us to him: we will go therefore a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest at any time death or slaughter happen to us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13 - A hand shall not touch it, for every one that touches shall be stoned with stones or shot through with a dart, whether beast or whether man, it shall not live: when the voices and trumpets and cloud depart from off the mountain, they shall come up on the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:4 - Moreover, if his master give him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master's; and he shall go forth alone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6 - his master shall bring him to the judgment-seat of God, and then shall he bring him to the door,—to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - And if two men revile each other and smite the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20 - And if a man smite his man-servant or his maid-servant, with a rod, and the party die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:21 - But if the servant continue to live a day or two, let not the master be punished; for he is his money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - And if one smite the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his maid-servant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - And if he should smite out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maid-servant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - And if a bull gore a man or woman and [fn]they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:29 - But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:31 - And if the bull gore a son or daughter, let them do to him according to this ordinance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32 - And if the bull gore a man-servant or maid-servant, he shall pay to their master thirty silver didrachms, and the bull shall be stoned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:33 - And if any one open a pit or dig a cavity in stone, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall in there,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:36 - But if the bull be known to have been given to goring in time past, and they have testified to his owner, and he have not removed him, he shall repay bull for bull, but the dead shall be his own.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - (LXX 21:37) And if one steal [fn]an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall pay five calves for a calf, and four sheep for a sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:5 - (LXX 22:4) And if any one should feed down a field or a vineyard, and should send in his beast to feed down another field, he shall make compensation of his own field according to his produce; and if he shall have fed down the whole field, he shall pay for compensation the best of his own field and the best of his vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:6 - (LXX 22:5) And if fire have gone forth and caught thorns, and should also set on fire threshing-floors or ears of corn or a field, he that kindled the fire shall make compensation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:7 - (LXX 22:6) And if any one give to his neighbour money or goods to keep, and they be stolen out of the man's house, if the thief be found, he shall repay double.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10 - (LXX 22:9) And if any one give to his neighbour to keep a calf or sheep or any beast, and it be wounded or die or be taken, and no one know,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:14 - (LXX 22:13) And if any one borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be wounded or die or be carried away, and the owner of it be not with it, he shall make compensation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4 - And if thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt turn them back and restore them to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - And Aaron shall have them, and his sons, whenever they enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when they shall advance to the altar of the sanctuary to minister, so they shall not bring sin upon themselves, lest they die: it is a perpetual statute for him, and for his seed after him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - Whensoever they shall go into the tabernacle of witness, they shall wash themselves with water, so they shall not die, whensoever they advance to the altar to do service and to offer the whole burnt-offerings to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10 - And if his gift be of the sheep to the Lord, or of the lambs, or of the kids for whole-burnt-offerings, he shall bring it a male without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:14 - And if he bring his gift, a burnt-offering to the Lord, of birds, then shall he bring his gift of doves or pigeons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6 - And if his gift be of the sheep, a peace-offering to the Lord, male or female, he shall bring it unblemished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:23 - and his trespass wherein he has sinned, be known to him,—then shall he offer for his gift a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:28 - and his sin should be known to him, wherein he has sinned, then shall he bring a kid of the goats, a female without blemish shall he bring for his sin, which he has sinned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 - And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and he is a witness or has seen or been conscious, if he do not report it, he shall bear his iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - That soul which shall touch any unclean thing, or carcase, or that which is unclean being taken of beasts, or the dead bodies of abominable reptiles which are unclean, or carcases of unclean cattle,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - or should touch the uncleanness of a man, of whatever kind, which he may touch and be defiled by, and it should have escaped him, but afterwards he should know,—then he shall have transgressed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - That unrighteous soul, which determines with his lips to do evil or to do good according to whatsoever a man may determine with an oath, and it shall have escaped his notice, and he shall afterwards know it, and so he should sin in some one of these things:—

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:6 - And he shall bring for his transgressions against the Lord, for his sin which he has sinned, a ewe lamb of the flock, or a kid of the goats, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he has sinned, and his sin shall be forgiven him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - And if he cannot afford a sheep, he shall bring for his sin which he has sinned, two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to the Lord; one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - And if he cannot afford a pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then shall he bring as his gift for his sin, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering; he shall not pour oil upon it, nor shall he put frankincense upon it, because it is a sin-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - (LXX 5:21) The soul which shall have sinned, and wilfully overlooked the commandments of the Lord, and shall have dealt falsely in the affairs of his neighbour in the matter of a deposit, or concerning fellowship, or concerning plunder, or has in anything wronged his neighbour,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:3 - (LXX 5:22) or has found that which was lost, and shall have lied concerning it, and shall have sworn unjustly concerning any one of all the things, whatsoever a man may do, so as to sin hereby;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4 - (LXX 5:23) it shall come to pass, whensoever he shall have sinned, and transgressed, that he shall restore the plunder which he has seized, or redress the injury which he has committed, or restore the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost article which he has found

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:5 - (LXX 5:24) of any kind, about which he swore unjustly, he shall even restore it in full; and he shall add to it a fifth part besides; he shall restore it to him whose it is in the day in which he happens to be convicted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:16 - And if it be a vow, or he offer his gift of his own will, on whatsoever day he shall offer his sacrifice, it shall be eaten, and on the morrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - And whatsoever soul shall touch any unclean thing, either of the uncleanness of a man, or of unclean quadrupeds, or any unclean abominable thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace-offering, which is the Lord's, that soul shall perish from his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - And on whatsoever one of their dead bodies shall fall it shall be unclean; whatever wooden vessel, or garment, or skin, or sack it may be, every vessel in which work should be done, shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean till evening; and then it shall be clean.

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