Does the Biblical Hebrew Conjunction -ו Have Many Meanings, One Meaning, or No Meaning at All?

Abstract

In summary, then, -ו is sometimes meaningful and sometimes meaningless. All of the meaningful instances can be viewed as having one and the same meaning, whether it be the full four-line truth table of the logical connective "&" or only one line of that truth table. There is no need to have recourse to any of the other meanings that have been attributed to it. And if there is no need to attribute those meanings to -ו, we should refrain from doing so, based on the principle, enunciated by William of Ockham, that "entities are not be multiplied beyond necessity."