עוֹףʻôwph
flying creatures, fowl, insects
Pronunciation: ofe · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5775
Meanings
1. fowl, birds (Genesis 40:17; Genesis 40:19; Genesis 7:8)
2. winged insects, (clean and unclean) (Leviticus 11:20; Leviticus 11:21; Deuteronomy 14:19)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 71 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.”
- Genesis 1:21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:22 Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the fish fill the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
- Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
- Genesis 1:30 And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is what happened.
See every passage
- Genesis 1:20, 1:21, 1:22, 1:26, 1:28, 1:30, 2:19, 2:20, 6:7, 6:20, 7:3, 7:8, 7:14, 7:21, 7:23, 8:17, 8:19, 8:20, 9:2, 9:10, 40:17, 40:19
- Leviticus 1:14, 7:26, 11:13, 11:20, 11:21, 11:23, 11:46, 17:13, 20:25
- Deuteronomy 14:19, 14:20, 28:26
- 1 Samuel 17:44, 17:46
- 2 Samuel 21:10
- 1 Kings 4:33, 14:11, 16:4, 21:24
- Job 12:7, 28:21, 35:11
- Psalms 50:11, 78:27, 79:2, 104:12
- Ecclesiastes 10:20
- Isaiah 16:2
- Jeremiah 4:25, 5:27, 7:33, 9:10, 12:4, 15:3, 16:4, 19:7, 34:20
- Ezekiel 29:5, 31:6, 31:13, 32:4, 38:20, 44:31
- Hosea 2:18, 4:3, 7:12, 9:11
- Zephaniah 1:3
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).