Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar/162. Disjunctive Sentences
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§162. Disjunctive Sentences.
a The introduction of another possible case, excluding that which preceded, is effected by אוֹ or, e.g. Ex 2136, equivalent to the Latin vel; but also equivalent to aut with an exclusive antithesis, 2 K 216; so Is 275 אוֹ= it would then happen that, for which elsewhere אוֹ כִי.
b In the sense of sive—sive we find אוֹ—אוֹ, or אִם—אִם, or וְאִם—אִם (see the examples in the Lexicon), also וְ—וְ Lv 53, Nu 914, Dt 247, Is 213 ff., Jer 3220, ψ 767, Jb 3429, perhaps also Ex 2116 (but not Pr 299; cf. Delitzsch on the passage), and לְ—לְ (see § 143 e); cf. also גַּם—גַּם (in Gn 2444 וְגַם—גַּם) both—and; but גַּם לֹא—גַּם לֹא (in Gn 2126 וְגַם לֹא—וְגַם לֹא; Zp 118 גַּם ... לֹא—גַּם) neither—nor. On disjunctive questions, see § 150 g.