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Leviticus 22:5
“Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
אוֹʼôw · o
H176 · Hebrew
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
- אוֹ — conjunction
- Usage
- Occurs 321 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 24:49Genesis 24:50Genesis 24:55Genesis 31:43Genesis 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.
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.