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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 BoxNum 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - "Tell the Israelites, 'When a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit, thereby breaking faith with the LORD, and that person is found guilty,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - and if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is defiled; or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is not defiled -

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:30 - or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2 - "Speak to the Israelites, and tell them, 'When either a man or a woman takes a special vow, to take a vow as a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:10 - On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - "Tell the Israelites, 'If any of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may observe the Passover to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:21 - And when the cloud remained only from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up the following morning, then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up they traveled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8 - And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:3 - and you make an offering by fire to the LORD from the herd or from the flock (whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:5 - You must also prepare one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with the burnt offering or the sacrifice for each lamb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:6 - Or for a ram, you must prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one-third of a hin of olive oil,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:8 - And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:11 - This is what is to be done for each ox, or each ram, or each of the male lambs or the goats.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:14 - If a resident foreigner is living with you - or whoever is among you in future generations - and prepares an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he must do it the same way you are to do it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:17 - But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, "Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment of the LORD my God to do less or more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:13 - 'If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD to do either good or evil of my own will, but whatever the LORD tells me I must speak'?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - If a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath of binding obligation on himself, he must not break his word, but must do whatever he has promised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:6 - "And if she marries a husband while under a vow, or she uttered anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10 - If she made the vow in her husband's house or put herself under obligation with an oath,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:14 - But if her husband remains completely silent about her from day to day, he thus confirms all her vows or all her obligations which she is under; he confirms them because he remained silent about when he heard them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:20 - "But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21 - or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:22 - "But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,
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