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Deuteronomy 4:34

“Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

אוֹʼôw · o
H176 · Hebrew

Definition: desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if
Derivation: presumed to be the 'constructive' or genitival form of אַו ; short for H185 (אַוָּה);
KJV renderings: also, and, either, if, at the least, [idiom] nor, or, otherwise, then, whether.
Grammar: א֣וֹ — conjunction
Code HC
Usage: Occurs 321 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 24:49 Genesis 24:50 Genesis 24:55 Genesis 31:43 Genesis 44:8

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אוֹ here.

Verse 33 Verse 35

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.