אוֹ
o
1. or, rather
a. implying that the latter choice is preferred
b. or if, introducing an example to be seen under a particular principle
c. (in series) either...or, whether...or
d. if perchance
e. except, or else
2. whether, not the least, if, otherwise, also, and, then
desire
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- Leviticus 25:49 אוֹ־א֤וֹאֽוֹ־אֽוֹ־
either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.
- Leviticus 26:41 אוֹ־
and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
- Leviticus 27:10 אוֹ־
He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
- Numbers 5:6 אֽוֹ־
“Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty
- Numbers 5:14 אוֹ־
and if a feeling of jealousy comes over her husband and he suspects his wife who has defiled herself—or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he suspects her even though she has not defiled herself—
- Numbers 5:30 א֣וֹ
or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he suspects his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest is to apply to her this entire law.
- Numbers 6:2 אֽוֹ־
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,
- Numbers 6:10 א֥וֹ
On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 9:10 אוֹ֩א֚וֹ
“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
- Numbers 9:21 א֚וֹ
Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.
- Numbers 9:22 אֽוֹ־אוֹ־אוֹ־
Whether the cloud lingered for two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle; but when it was lifted, they would set out.
- Numbers 11:8 א֤וֹ
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
- Numbers 14:2 א֛וֹ
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
- Numbers 15:3 אוֹ־א֣וֹא֖וֹא֥וֹ
and you present an offering made by fire to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—
- Numbers 15:5 א֣וֹ
With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.
- Numbers 15:6 א֤וֹ
With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,
- Numbers 15:8 אוֹ־אֽוֹ־
When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,
- Numbers 15:11 א֖וֹאֽוֹ־א֥וֹ
This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.
- Numbers 15:14 א֤וֹ
And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.
- Numbers 18:17 אֽוֹ־אֽוֹ־
But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Numbers 19:16 א֣וֹאֽוֹ־א֣וֹ
Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
- Numbers 19:18 א֣וֹא֥וֹא֥וֹ
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
- Numbers 22:18 א֥וֹ
But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.
- Numbers 24:13 א֥וֹ
that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I will speak whatever the LORD says.
- Numbers 30:2 אֽוֹ־
If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.
- Numbers 30:6 א֚וֹ
If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,
- Numbers 30:10 אֽוֹ־
If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,
- Numbers 30:14 א֥וֹ
But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.
- Numbers 35:18 א֡וֹ
If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:20 אֽוֹ־
Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,
- Numbers 35:21 א֣וֹ
or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.
- Numbers 35:22 אוֹ־
But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
- Numbers 35:23 א֣וֹ
or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,
- Deuteronomy 4:16 א֥וֹ
that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:32 א֖וֹ
Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
- Deuteronomy 4:34 א֣וֹ׀
Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 13:1 א֖וֹא֥וֹ
If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
- Deuteronomy 13:3 א֛וֹ
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 13:5 א֣וֹ
Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 13:6 אֽוֹ־אֽוֹ־א֣וֹ׀א֧וֹ
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
- Deuteronomy 13:7 א֖וֹ
the gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, whether from one end of the earth or the other),
- Deuteronomy 14:21 א֤וֹ
You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Deuteronomy 15:12 א֚וֹ
If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
- Deuteronomy 15:21 א֣וֹ
But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 17:2 אוֹ־
If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
- Deuteronomy 17:3 א֣וֹא֛וֹ
and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—
- Deuteronomy 17:5 אוֹ֩א֖וֹ
you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.
- Deuteronomy 17:6 א֛וֹ
On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
- Deuteronomy 17:12 א֖וֹ
But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 19:15 א֛וֹ
A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.