H5775 עוֹף (ʻôwph) ofe

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

bird

Strong's Definition

a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively

Derivation: from H5774 (עוּף);

KJV Usage: bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.

TWOT Reference: 1582a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) flying creatures, fowl, insects, birds

1a) fowl, birds

1b) winged insects

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3732 G4071

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

עוֹף (oph) — bird. 1) flying creatures, fowl, insects, birds 1a) fowl, birds 1b) winged insects Aramaic equivalent: oph (עוֹף "bird" H5776)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עֹוף (H5775 · A5776)

noun m · עוף

Birds

birds, fowls = an animal with feathers, wings, and a beak, laying eggs and typically able to fly

GEN 1:20 · GEN 1:21 · GEN 1:22 · GEN 1:26 · GEN 1:28 · GEN 1:30 · GEN 2:19 · GEN 2:20 · GEN 6:7 · GEN 6:20 · GEN 7:3 · GEN 7:8 · GEN 7:14 · GEN 7:21 · GEN 7:23 · GEN 8:17 · GEN 8:19 · GEN 8:20 · GEN 9:2 · GEN 9:10 · GEN 40:17 · GEN 40:19 · LEV 1:14 · LEV 7:26 · LEV 11:13 · LEV 11:46 · LEV 17:13 · LEV 20:25 · LEV 20:25 · DEU 14:20 · DEU 28:26 · 1SA 17:44 · 1SA 17:46 · 2SA 21:10 · 1KI 5:13 · 1KI 14:11 · 1KI 16:4 · 1KI 21:24 · JOB 12:7 · JOB 28:21 · JOB 35:11 · PSA 50:11 · PSA 78:27 · PSA 79:2 · PSA 104:12 · ECC 10:20 · ISA 16:2 · JER 4:25 · JER 5:27 · JER 7:33 · JER 9:9 · JER 12:4 · JER 15:3 · JER 16:4 · JER 19:7 · JER 34:20 · EZK 29:5 · EZK 31:6 · EZK 31:13 · EZK 32:4 · EZK 38:20 · EZK 44:31 · DAN 2:38 · DAN 7:6 · HOS 2:20 · HOS 4:3 · HOS 7:12 · HOS 9:11 · ZEP 1:3

Birds

Collocation: שֶׁרֶץ עֹוף

winged insects = swarming creatures with wings

LEV 11:20 · LEV 11:21 · LEV 11:23 · DEU 14:19

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עוֹף 70 n.m. coll. flying creatures, fowls, insects fowl, birds

winged insects

base

Bible Occurrences (70)

1:14 7:26 11:13 11:20 11:21 11:23 11:46 17:13 20:25

14:19 14:20 28:26

17:44 17:46

21:10

4:33 14:11 16:4 21:24

12:7 28:21 35:11

50:11 78:27 79:2 104:12

10:20

16:2

4:25 5:27 7:33 9:10 12:4 15:3 16:4 19:7 34:20

29:5 31:6 31:13 32:4 38:20 44:31

2:18 4:3 7:12 9:11

1:3

Genesis 1:20

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

Genesis 1:21

So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, [with] which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that [it was] good.

Genesis 1:22

Then God blessed them [and] said, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon [it].

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.

Genesis 1:30

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth — everything that has the breath of life in it — [I have given] every green plant for food. And it was so.

Genesis 2:19

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought [them] to the man to see what he would name... each one -. And whatever the man called... each living creature, that [was] its name.

Genesis 2:20

The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.