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O (או) means or in Hebrew.

It is a conjunction, and the Hebrew dictionary's own definitions are below.

אוֹ
o
conjunction
In English

or

The stress falls on the part in bold.

The Hebrew dictionaryWords starting with א

The dictionary gives one meaning for O.

The definitions are in Hebrew, as the dictionary writes them.

  1. 1
    מלת ברירה הבאה לציין חלופות.
    הֵן כֶּסֶף, אֲשֶׁר מָצָאנוּ בְּפִי אַמְתְּחֹתֵינוּ – הֱשִׁיבֹנוּ אֵלֶיךָ, מֵאֶרֶץ כְּנָעַן; וְאֵיךְ נִגְנֹב מִבֵּית אֲדֹנֶיךָ, כֶּסֶף אוֹ זָהָב?

The verses are quoted from the Hebrew Bible, with the word in bold.

The word O is a conjunction.

Written with vowel points
אוֹ
Written without vowel points
או
Said
o
Gematria
7

This is how O is said in other languages.

English
or
Arabic
أو
Russian
или
French
ou
Spanish
o
German
oder
Yiddish
אָדער

These words rhyme with O.

The word O is part of these phrases and sayings.

A word with a dashed border has no page of its own in this dictionary yet.

This is where the word O comes from.

בפיניקית "או", באוגריתית (אֻ) במשמעות "או", "וגם", סורית, ערבית ואתיופית בהגיה "ʔaw", אכדית ū.

These words come before and after O in the dictionary.

These are the questions people ask about the word O.

What does O (⁨או⁩) mean in Hebrew?

O (⁨או⁩) means or. It is said o, with the stress on o.

What rhymes with O (⁨או⁩)?

Words that rhyme with O (⁨או⁩) include ⁨תאו⁩ and ⁨פרעה⁩.

The definitions, pronunciation, synonyms and translations on this page are adapted from the entry או of the Hebrew Wiktionary, read on 1 November 2026, and are shared under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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