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Strong H176H176Aאוֹ

or

One of the 2 senses of Strong H176

Transliteration
'ô 'av
Pronunciation
{o} av
Morphology
Hebrew Conjunction

Definition

STEP sense: or

Exact lexical definition: or

Part of speech: conjunction

BDB context: אוֹ 320 conj . or sometimes implying a preference, nearly or rather introducing a sentence, esp. a particular case under a general principle, or = or if if perchance once, with the juss. = except

General definition

The first form is presumed to be the constructive or genitival form of the second form which is short for H185; desire (and so probably in ); hence (by way of alternative) {or} also if: - {also} {and} {either} {if} at the {least} X {nor} {or} {otherwise} {then} whether.

In the Bible

Strong H176A appears in 15 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • or7
  • and2
  • also1
  • either1
  • least1
  • nor1
  • otherwise1
  • should1
  • then1

First verses

  1. Genesis 24:49
    And now if ye 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.
  2. Genesis 24:50
    Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
  3. Genesis 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.
  4. Genesis 31:43
    And Laban answered and said unto 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 unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
  5. Exodus 19:13
    There shall not an 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.
  6. Exodus 21:18
    And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
  7. Leviticus 13:53
    And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
  8. Leviticus 20:17
    And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
  9. Leviticus 26:41
    And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
  10. Judges 11:34
    And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
  11. 2 Samuel 18:13
    Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
  12. Proverbs 30:31
    A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
  13. Song of Songs 2:7
    I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
  14. Song of Songs 3:5
    I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
  15. Ezekiel 21:10
    It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
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