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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 321 times in 218 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 24:49–Lev 11:32)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:49 - And now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, 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 Box Gen 24:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - Then Laban and Bethuel answered, and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak to thee bad or good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - And Laban answered, and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children which they have borne?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - Behold, the money which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to thee from the land of Canaan: how then should we steal from thy lord's house silver or gold?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:19 - My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11 - And the LORD said to him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice to the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13 - There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through: whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:4 - If his master hath given him a wife, and she hath borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall depart by himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6 - Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or 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 Box Exo 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - And if men contend together, and one shall smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he shall not die, but keep his bed:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:20

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:21 - Notwithstanding, if he shall continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his money.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - And if a man shall smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it shall perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - And if he shall smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - If an ox shall gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:29 - But if the ox was accustomed to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not restrained him, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:31 - Whether he hath gored a son, or hath gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32 - If the ox shall push a man-servant, or maid-servant; he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:33 - And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass shall fall into it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:36 - Or if it shall be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not restrained him; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:5 - If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field: of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:6 - If fire shall break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field shall be consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:7 - If a man shall deliver to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief shall be found, let him pay double.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10 - If a man shall deliver to his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast to keep; and it shall die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:14 - And if a man shall borrow aught of his neighbor, and it shall be hurt, or die, the owner of it being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4 - If thou shalt meet thy enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they enter in to the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die. It shall be a statute for ever to him, and to his seed after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not: or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10 - And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt-sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:14 - And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD shall be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtle doves, or of young pigeons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6 - And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offering to the LORD shall be of the flock, male or female; he shall offer it without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:23 - Or if his sin, in which he hath sinned, shall come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:28 - Or if his sin which he hath sinned shall come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 - And if a soul shall sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and be a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he doth not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - Or if a soul shall touch any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast, or a carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping animals, and it shall be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - Or if he shall touch the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness it may be that a man shall be defiled with, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - Or if a soul shall swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it may be, that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:6 - And he shall bring his trespass-offering to the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - And if he shall not be able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass which he hath committed, 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 Box Lev 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - But if he shall not be able to bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons; then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense upon it: for it is a sin-offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - If a soul shall sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie to his neighbor, in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbor;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:3 - Or hath found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4 - Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by force, or the thing which he obtained by deceit, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:5 - Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add to it the fifth part more, and give it to him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass-offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:16 - But if the sacrifice of his offering shall be a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - Moreover, the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings which pertain to the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - And upon whatever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, in which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; so it shall be cleansed.

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