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:
Numbers 15:11: "ram, or for a lamb, or a kid."
Numbers 15:14: "a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer"
Numbers 18:17: "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling"
Numbers 18:17: "or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem;"
Numbers 19:16: "with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone"
Numbers 19:16: "the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or"
Numbers 19:16: "a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean"
Numbers 19:18: "and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or"
Numbers 19:18: "a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:"
Numbers 19:18: "one slain, or one dead, or a grave:"
Numbers 22:18: "of the LORD my God, to do less or more."
Numbers 24:13: "the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or of mine own mind;"
Numbers 30:2: "vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind"
Numbers 30:6: "she had at all a husband, when she vowed, or uttered aught out of her lips,"
Numbers 30:10: "she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond"
Numbers 30:14: "day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all"
Numbers 35:18: " Or if he smite him with a hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die,"
Numbers 35:20: "But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;"
Numbers 35:21: " Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death;"
Numbers 35:22: "him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing"
Numbers 35:23: " Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast"
Deuteronomy 4:16: "figure, the likeness of male or female,"
Deuteronomy 4:32: "the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?"
Deuteronomy 4:34: " Or hath God attempted to go and take him a nation from the midst"
Deuteronomy 13:1: "there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth"
Deuteronomy 13:1: "of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,"
Deuteronomy 13:3: "the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for"
Deuteronomy 13:5: "And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because"
Deuteronomy 13:6: "thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or"
Deuteronomy 13:6: "of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom,"
Deuteronomy 13:6: "thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend,"
Deuteronomy 13:6: "or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul,"
Deuteronomy 13:7: "which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end"
Deuteronomy 14:21: "that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou"
Deuteronomy 15:12: "And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six"
Deuteronomy 15:21: "there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish,"
Deuteronomy 17:2: "thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought"
Deuteronomy 17:3: "gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host"
Deuteronomy 17:3: "them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which"
Deuteronomy 17:5: "that man or that woman, which have committed"
Deuteronomy 17:5: "thy gates, that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones,"
Deuteronomy 17:6: "the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death;"
Deuteronomy 17:12: "before the LORD thy God, or the judge, even that man"
Deuteronomy 19:15: "the mouth witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses,"
Deuteronomy 22:1: "thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself"
Deuteronomy 22:4: "thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself"
Deuteronomy 22:6: "thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or"
Deuteronomy 22:6: "on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam upon"
Deuteronomy 22:6: "upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take"
Deuteronomy 24:3: "it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband"
