H176 אוֹ

אוֹ (ʼôw), Strong’s H176: desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if KJV: also, and, either, if, at the least, [idiom] nor, or, otherwise, then, whether…

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ʼôw — desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if

KJV: also, and, either, if, at the least, [idiom] nor, or, otherwise, then, whether.

Occurs 321 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [אֵו] n.m. אוֹ, Kt Pr 31:4 desire, so Thes MV; but < Qr אֵי q.v.
- אוֹ conj
- אוֹ 320 conj. or
- 1 sometimes implying a preference, nearly or rather
- 2 introducing a sentence, esp. a particular case under a general principle, or = or if
- 3 if perchance
- 4 once, with the juss. = except

Where it occurs
- Genesis 24:49 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=49) — Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or…
- Genesis 24:50 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=50) — Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can’t speak to you bad or good.
- Genesis 24:55 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=55) — Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”
- Genesis 31:43 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=43) — Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all…
- Genesis 44:8 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=8) — Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then…
- Genesis 44:19 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=19) — My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
- Exodus 4:11 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=11) — The LORD said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, the LORD?
- Exodus 5:3 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=3) — They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and…
- Exodus 19:13 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/19?v=13) — No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not…
- Exodus 21:4 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=4) — If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s…