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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 137 times in 72 verses in 'Lev' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Lev 1:10–Lev 15:29)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10 - ‘If his offering is of the flocks—of the sheep or of the goats—as a burnt sacrifice, he shall bring a male without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:14 - ‘And if the burnt sacrifice of his offering to the LORD is of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or young pigeons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6 - ‘If his offering as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the LORD is of the flock, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:23 - ‘or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:28 - ‘or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, then he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 - ‘If a person sins in hearing the utterance of an oath, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of the matter—if he does not tell it, he bears guilt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - ‘Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and he is unaware of it, he also shall be unclean and guilty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - ‘Or if he touches human uncleanness—whatever uncleanness with which a man may be defiled, and he is unaware of it—when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - ‘Or if a person swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man may pronounce by an oath, and he is unaware of it—when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:6 - ‘and he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - ‘If he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD, for his trespass which he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons: one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - ‘But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, nor shall he put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - “If a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD by lying to his neighbor about what was delivered to him for safekeeping, or about a pledge, or about a robbery, or if he has extorted from his neighbor,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:3 - “or if he has found what was lost and lies concerning it, and swears falsely—in any one of these things that a man may do in which he sins:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4 - “then it shall be, because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore what he has stolen, or the thing which he has extorted, or what was delivered to him for safekeeping, or the lost thing which he found,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:5 - “or all that about which he has sworn falsely. He shall restore its full value, add one-fifth more to it, and give it to whomever it belongs, on the day of his trespass offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:16 - ‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; but on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - ‘Moreover the person who touches any unclean thing, such as human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any abominable unclean thing,[fn] and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - ‘Anything on which any of them falls, when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is any item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever item it is, in which any work is done, it must be put in water. And it shall be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:6 - ‘When the days of her purification are fulfilled, whether for a son or a daughter, she shall bring to the priest a lamb of the first year as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:7 - ‘Then he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her. And she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who has borne a male or a female.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - ‘And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she may bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a burnt offering and the other as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:2 - “When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling, a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body like a leprous[fn] sore, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:16 - “Or if the raw flesh changes and turns white again, he shall come to the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:19 - “and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:24 - “Or if the body receives a burn on its skin by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white or white,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:29 - “If a man or woman has a sore on the head or the beard,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - “then the priest shall examine the sore; and indeed if it appears deeper than the skin, and there is in it thin yellow hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a scaly leprosy of the head or beard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:38 - “If a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of the body, specifically white bright spots,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:42 - “And if there is on the bald head or bald forehead a reddish-white sore, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:43 - “Then the priest shall examine it; and indeed if the swelling of the sore is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy on the skin of the body,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:47 - “Also, if a garment has a leprous plague[fn] in it, whether it is a woolen garment or a linen garment,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:48 - “whether it is in the warp or woof of linen or wool, whether in leather or in anything made of leather,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:49

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:49 - “and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, it is a leprous plague and shall be shown to the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - “And he shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, in the leather or in anything made of leather, the plague is an active leprosy. It is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:52 - “He shall therefore burn that garment in which is the plague, whether warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, for it is an active leprosy; the garment shall be burned in the fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:53 - “But if the priest examines it, and indeed the plague has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - “Then the priest shall examine the plague after it has been washed; and indeed if the plague has not changed its color, though the plague has not spread, it is unclean, and you shall burn it in the fire; it continues eating away, whether the damage is outside or inside.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:56

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:56 - “If the priest examines it, and indeed the plague has faded after washing it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, whether out of the warp or out of the woof, or out of the leather.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:57 - “But if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, it is a spreading plague; you shall burn with fire that in which is the plague.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:58

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:58 - “And if you wash the garment, either warp or woof, or whatever is made of leather, if the plague has disappeared from it, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:59

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:59 - “This is the law of the leprous plague in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or woof, or in anything made of leather, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:22 - “and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford: one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:30 - “And he shall offer one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, such as he can afford—

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:37 - “And he shall examine the plague; and indeed if the plague is on the walls of the house with ingrained streaks, greenish or reddish, which appear to be deep in the wall,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:3 - ‘And this shall be his uncleanness in regard to his discharge—whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14 - ‘On the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and give them to the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23 - ‘If anything is on her bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 - ‘If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. She shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29 - ‘And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

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