עוֹף
ʿôp
flying creatures
Strong's H5775NounHebrewTWOT 1582a

עוֹף (ʿôp) is a Hebrew noun meaning flying creatures. It appears 71 times in 14 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5775).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1582a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1582a)flying creatures, fowls, insects; birds; winged insects; that flieth, flying
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

עוֹף noun, masculine: flying creatures, fowls, insects

Strong's H5775 עוֹף: a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
KJV:bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1582: עוּף ʿûp — fly; hover, fly away; fly about, to and fro, cause to fly to and fro, brandish; faint; flee away, shine forth, weary

See it in Scripture

Genesis 1:20Leviticus 1:14Deuteronomy 14:19

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