עוּףʻûwph
עוּף: fly
Pronunciation: oof · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5774
Meanings
Qal
1.
a. fly (Deuteronomy 4:17; Proverbs 26:2; Isaiah 6:6)
b. hover (Isaiah 31:5; Deuteronomy 32:11)
2. fly away (Psalms 55:7; Psalms 55:8; Nahum 1:16)
Po`l.
1. fly about, to and fro (Genesis 1:20; Isaiah 6:2; Isaiah 14:29)
2. cause to fly to and fro, brandish (Ezekiel 32:10)
Hithpo`el: fly away (Hosea 9:11)
Hiph`il: see Qal near the end
עוּף: be dark
Qal: it be dark (Job 11:17)
עִיף: be faint
: fowl (Daniel 7:6; Daniel 2:38)
Same root
- עוֹףʻôwph · H5775a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
- מוּעָףmûwʻâph · H4155properly, covered, i.e. dark; abstractly, obscurity, i.e. distress
- מָעוּףmâʻûwph · H4588darkness
- עֵיפָהʻêyphâh · H5890obscurity (as if from covering)
- עַפְעַףʻaphʻaph · H6079an eyelash (as fluttering); figuratively, morning ray
Where it appears
Appears 26 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:20 Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind.”
- Deuteronomy 4:17 an animal on the ground, a bird in the sky,
- 2 Samuel 22:11 Mounted on a mighty angelic being, he flew, soaring on the wings of the wind.
- Job 5:7 People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.
- Job 11:17 Your life will be brighter than the noonday. Even darkness will be as bright as morning.
- Job 20:8 They will fade like a dream and not be found. They will vanish like a vision in the night.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).