Strong's #176: 'ow (pronounced o)
presumed to be the "constructive" or genitival form of -av {av}; short for 185; desire (and so probably in Prov. 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if:--also, and, either, if, at the least, X nor, or, otherwise, then, whether.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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'ô / 'av
1) or, rather
1a) implying that the latter choice is preferred
1b) or if, introducing an example to be seen under a particular principle
1c) (in series) either...or, whether...or
1d) if perchance
1e) except, or else
2) whether, not the least, if, otherwise, also, and, then
Part of Speech: conjunction
Relation: presumed to be the "constructive" or genitival form of ' av; short for H185
Usage:
This word is used 320 times:
Genesis 24:49: "me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
Genesis 24:50: "we cannot speak unto thee bad or good."
Genesis 24:55: "abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go."
Genesis 31:43: "this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?"
Genesis 44:8: "how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or"
Genesis 44:19: "saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?"
Exodus 4:11: "hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or"
Exodus 4:11: "who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing,"
Exodus 4:11: "the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, the blind? have not"
Exodus 4:11: "deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?"
Exodus 5:3: "lest us with pestilence, or with the sword."
Exodus 19:13: "touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether"
Exodus 21:4: "him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be"
Exodus 21:6: "he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through"
Exodus 21:18: "another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth"
Exodus 21:20: "smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die"
Exodus 21:21: "if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for"
Exodus 21:26: "the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish;"
Exodus 21:27: "he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free"
Exodus 21:28: "gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox"
Exodus 21:29: "to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox"
Exodus 21:31: " Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment"
Exodus 21:31: "Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment"
Exodus 21:32: "the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty"
Exodus 21:33: "a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit,"
Exodus 21:33: "and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall"
Exodus 21:36: " Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past,"
Exodus 22:1: "a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell"
Exodus 22:1: "or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen"
Exodus 22:5: "If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in"
Exodus 22:6: "and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed"
Exodus 22:6: "so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled"
Exodus 22:7: "unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house;"
Exodus 22:10: "unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any"
Exodus 22:10: "an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep;"
Exodus 22:10: "beast, to keep; and it die, or or driven away, no man"
Exodus 22:10: "and it die, or or driven away, no man seeing"
Exodus 22:14: "aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not"
Exodus 23:4: "thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again."
Exodus 28:43: "unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister"
Exodus 30:20: "with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister,"
Leviticus 1:10: "the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring"
Leviticus 1:14: "his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons."
Leviticus 3:6: "be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish."
Leviticus 4:23: " Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring"
Leviticus 4:28: " Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering,"
Leviticus 5:1: "the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if"
Leviticus 5:1: "and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter"
Leviticus 5:2: " Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcass"
Leviticus 5:2: "any unclean thing, whether it be a carcass of an unclean beast, or"
