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Hebrew verb · H5774

עוּף

uphoof

to fly; gloom

26 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻûwph

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5774is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 24
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5774

to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning)

The King James renders it: brandish, be (wax) faint, flee away, fly (away), [idiom] set, shine forth, weary.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

uph is rendered "to fly; gloom". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to fly".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:20And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.

The first use

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 1:20יְעוֹפֵ֣ף

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's twenty-six uses are in Isaiah.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: to fly, and gloom.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to flyStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 1:20And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures…
gloomStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • flying5
  • and he flew3
  • they fly2
  • ¿ do you cause to fly1
  • and it flew away1
  • and they will fly1
  • and we flew away1
  • for flying1
  • he flew1
  • he will fly away1
  • I want to fly away1
  • it flies1

and 7 more, 26 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 26, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

24 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַיָּעֹ֑ף2
  • יָע֥וּף2
  • אָע֥וּפָה1
  • בְּעוֹפְפִ֥י1
  • הֲתָ֤עִיף1
  • וַיָּ֣עָף1
  • וַיָּעֹֽף׃1
  • וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃1
  • וְעָפ֨וּ1
  • יָ֭עוּף1
  • יְעוֹפֵ֣ף1
  • יְעוֹפֵֽף׃1

and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3ms4Hc/Vqw3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpi3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular2HVprmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular2HVqrfsa
  • Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
  • Hc/Vqw1cp/Sh1Hc/Vqw1cp/Sh
  • noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Vpcc/Sp1bs
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
  • question particle + verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HTi/Vhi2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular1HVqc1cs

Genesis

one use
  • 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 1:20

    • יְעוֹפֵ֣ףyeofefverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it fly

Deuteronomy

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

    Deuteronomy 4:17

    • תָּע֖וּףtaufverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it flies

2 Samuel

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

    2 Samuel 22:11

    • וַיָּעֹ֑ףvaiyaofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he flew

Job

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

    Job 5:7

    • עֽוּף׃ʾufverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to fly
  • Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

    Job 11:17

    • תָּ֝עֻ֗פָהtaufahnoun · feminine singulartagged: it will be dark
  • He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

    Job 20:8

    • יָ֭עוּףyaufverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will fly away

Psalms

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

    Psalms 18:10

    • וַיָּעֹ֑ףvaiyaofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he flew
  • I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

    Psalms 55:6

    • אָע֥וּפָהʾaufahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I want to fly 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.

    Psalms 90:10

    • וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃vanaufahHc/Vqw1cp/Shtagged: and we flew away
  • You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

    Psalms 91:5

    • יָע֥וּףyaufverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will fly

Proverbs

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

    Proverbs 23:5

    • הֲתָ֤עִיףhataufquestion particle + verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ do you cause to fly
    • יָע֥וּףveayefverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it flies away
  • Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

    Proverbs 26:2

    • לָע֑וּףlaufpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: for flying

Isaiah

seven uses
  • 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.

    Isaiah 6:2

    • יְעוֹפֵֽף׃yeofefverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: 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.

    Isaiah 6:6

    • וַיָּ֣עָףvaiyaofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he flew
  • 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.

    Isaiah 11:14

    • וְעָפ֨וּveafuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will fly
  • 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.

    Isaiah 14:29

    • מְעוֹפֵֽף׃meofefverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: 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.

    Isaiah 30:6

    • מְעוֹפֵ֔ףmeofefverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: 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.”

    Isaiah 31:5

    • עָפ֔וֹתafotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: flying
  • Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?

    Isaiah 60:8

    • תְּעוּפֶ֑ינָהteufeinahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they fly

Ezekiel

one use
  • 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.’

    Ezekiel 32:10

    • בְּעוֹפְפִ֥יbeofipreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: when brandish I

Hosea

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

    Hosea 9:11

    • יִתְעוֹפֵ֣ףyitofefverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will fly away

Nahum

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

    Nahum 3:16

    • וַיָּעֹֽף׃vaiyaofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it flew away

Habakkuk

one use
  • 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.

    Habakkuk 1:8

    • יָעֻ֕פוּyaufuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they fly

Zechariah

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

    Zechariah 5:1

    • עָפָֽה׃ʾafahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: flying
  • “What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

    Zechariah 5:2

    • עָפָ֔הʾafahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: flying

The letters

Gematria 156· 876 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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