BDB163
אוֺ320 [untranscribed source text 70], [untranscribed source text 71], [untranscribed source text 72]), conjunction or (whether aut or vel).
1.
Gen 24:49; Gen 31:43; Exod 4:11; Song 2:9; Lev 13:24; Num 5:30 + often
(especially in laws); sometimes implying a preference, nearly = or rather
Gen 24:55
יָמִים אוֺ עָשׂוֺר a few days or ten Judg 18:19; 1Sam 29:3. Prefixed to the first as well as to the
second alternative (rare) either (whether) … or
Lev 5:1; Lev 13:48; Lev 13:51 =
or, if not
Ezek 21:15
(si vera lectio) Ke
Mal 2:17; Job 16:3; Job 22:11.
2. introducing a sentence, especially a particular case under a general principle, or
= or if
Exod 21:31
׳
אוֺבֵֿן יִגַּח וג
or if he gore a son, etc. Exod 21:36; Lev 4:23; Lev 4:28 (see Di) Lev 5:21; Lev 5:22; Lev 25:49b; Num 5:14; 2Sam 18:13
or if I had dealt falsely against his life, then, etc., Ezek 14:17; Ezek 14:19
or if I send, etc.
3.
if perchance, 1Sam 20:10
if perchance thy father answer thee with something hard, Lev 26:41.
4. once, with the jussive (as in Arabic with the subjunctive see
Dr§ 175) = except:
Isa 27:5 I would
burn them together, אוֺ יַחֲזֵק בְּמָעֻזִּי
or else let him take hold (= except he take hold) of my strong-hold,
etc.
אוּ Prov 31:4 Kt, see [אַי].