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Strong's #5774: `uwph (pronounced oof)

a primitive root; to cover (with wings or obscurity); hence (as denominative from 5775) to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning):--brandish, be (wax) faint, flee away, fly (away), X set, shine forth, weary.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛ûph

1) to fly, fly about, fly away (verb)

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to fly, hover

1a2) to fly away

1b) (Hiphil) to cause to fly, light upon

1c) (Polel)

1c1) to fly about or to and fro

1c2) to cause to fly to and fro, brandish

1d) (Hithpolel) to fly away

2) (Qal) to cover, be dark (verb)

3) gloom (noun feminine)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1582, 1583, 1583c



Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

Genesis 1:20: "the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in"
Deuteronomy 4:17: "winged fowl that flieth in the air,"
Judges 4:21: "it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died."
2 Samuel 21:15: "the Philistines: and David waxed faint."
2 Samuel 22:11: "And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind."
Job 5:7: "is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward."
Job 11:17: "And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning."
Job 20:8: " He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night."
Psalms 18:10: "And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind."
Psalms 55:6: "I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest."
Psalms 90:10: "and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."
Psalms 91:5: "for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;"
Proverbs 23:5: " Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away"
Proverbs 23:5: "for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven."
Proverbs 26:2: "As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not"
Isaiah 6:2: "with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly."
Isaiah 6:6: " Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken"
Isaiah 11:14: " But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east"
Isaiah 14:29: "for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent."
Isaiah 30:6: "whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon"
Isaiah 31:5: "As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;"
Isaiah 60:8: "Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?"
Ezekiel 32:10: "Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword"
Hosea 9:11: "As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb,"
Nahum 3:16: "above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away."
Habakkuk 1:8: "and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle"
Zechariah 5:1: "mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll."
Zechariah 5:2: "And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits,"









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