Hebrew word · H5774

עוּף

'uf

to fly

Appears 26 times in 25 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

Where it appears

Genesis · 1
  1. Genesis 1:20 יְעוֹפֵ֣ף let it fly

    And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

Deuteronomy · 1
  1. Deuteronomy 4:17 תָּע֖וּף it flies

    of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,

2 Samuel · 1
  1. 2 Samuel 22:11 וַיָּעֹ֑ף and he flew

    He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

Job · 3
  1. Job 5:7 עֽוּף׃ to fly

    Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

  2. Job 11:17 תָּ֝עֻ֗פָה it will be dark

    Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

  3. Job 20:8 יָ֭עוּף he will fly away

    He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Psalms · 4
  1. Psalm 18:10 וַיָּעֹ֑ף and he flew

    He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

  2. Psalm 55:6 אָע֥וּפָה I want to fly away

    I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

  3. Psalm 90:10 וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃ and we flew away !

    The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

  4. Psalm 91:5 יָע֥וּף [which] it will fly

    You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

Proverbs · 3
  1. Proverbs 23:5 הֲתָ֤עִיף יָע֥וּף ¿ do you cause to fly, it flies away

    When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

  2. Proverbs 26:2 לָע֑וּף for flying

    Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

Isaiah · 7
  1. Isaiah 6:2 יְעוֹפֵֽף׃ he flew

    Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

  2. Isaiah 6:6 וַיָּ֣עָף and he flew

    Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

  3. Isaiah 11:14 וְעָפ֨וּ and they will fly

    They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

  4. Isaiah 14:29 מְעוֹפֵֽף׃ flying

    Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

  5. Isaiah 30:6 מְעוֹפֵ֔ף flying

    This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

  6. Isaiah 31:5 עָפ֔וֹת flying

    Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”

  7. Isaiah 60:8 תְּעוּפֶ֑ינָה they fly

    Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?

Ezekiel · 1
  1. Ezekiel 32:10 בְּעוֹפְפִ֥י when brandish I

    I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’

Hosea · 1
  1. Hosea 9:11 יִתְעוֹפֵ֣ף it will fly away

    Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

Nahum · 1
  1. Nahum 3:16 וַיָּעֹֽף׃ and it flew away

    You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

Habakkuk · 1
  1. Habakkuk 1:8 יָעֻ֕פוּ they fly

    Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

Zechariah · 2
  1. Zechariah 5:1 עָפָֽה׃ flying

    Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.

  2. Zechariah 5:2 עָפָ֔ה flying

    “What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

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