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:
Deuteronomy 24:14: "that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that"
Deuteronomy 27:22: "his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people"
Deuteronomy 29:18: "Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or"
Deuteronomy 29:18: "among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose"
Deuteronomy 29:18: "woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away"
Joshua 7:3: "the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up"
Judges 11:34: "beside her he had neither nor daughter."
Judges 18:19: "unto the house man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family"
Judges 19:13: "of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah."
Judges 21:22: "And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain,"
1 Samuel 2:14: "And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot;"
1 Samuel 2:14: "it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all"
1 Samuel 2:14: "kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook"
1 Samuel 13:19: "the Hebrews make them swords or spears:"
1 Samuel 14:6: "to the LORD to save by many or by few."
1 Samuel 20:2: "will do nothing either great or small, but that he will show"
1 Samuel 20:10: "Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?"
1 Samuel 21:3: "me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present."
1 Samuel 21:8: "under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither"
1 Samuel 22:15: "of all this, less or more."
1 Samuel 26:10: "As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die;"
1 Samuel 26:10: "him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish."
1 Samuel 29:3: "with me these days, or these years, and I have found no"
2 Samuel 2:21: "to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one"
2 Samuel 3:35: "if I taste bread, or aught else, till"
2 Samuel 17:9: "now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown"
2 Samuel 18:13: " Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid"
1 Kings 8:46: "of the enemy, far or near;"
1 Kings 20:39: "then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver."
1 Kings 21:6: "me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please I will give"
2 Kings 2:16: "hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said,"
2 Kings 4:13: "thou be spoken the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered,"
2 Kings 6:27: "thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?"
2 Kings 13:19: "him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten"
2 Chronicles 6:36: "and they carry them away captives unto a land or near;"
Job 3:15: " Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:"
Job 3:16: " Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw"
Job 12:8: " Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare"
Job 13:22: "Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer"
Job 16:3: "Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?"
Job 22:11: " Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover"
Job 35:7: "thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?"
Job 38:5: "the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon"
Job 38:6: "Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner"
Job 38:28: "Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?"
Job 38:31: "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?"
Job 38:36: "hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?"
Proverbs 30:31: "A greyhound; a he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up."
Proverbs 31:4: "for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:"
Ecclesiastes 2:19: "knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor"
