עוֹף
oph
“bird”
Definition
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
from H5774 (עוּף);
- flying creatures, fowl, insects, birds 1a) fowl, birds 1b) winged insects Aramaic equivalent: oph (*עוֹף *"bird" H5776)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
עוֹף appears 67 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the citywill be eaten by dogs,and anyone who dies in the fieldwill be eaten by the birds of the air.’For the LORD has spoken.
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So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
As they go, I will spread My net over them;I will bring them down like birds of the air.I will chastise themwhen I hear them flocking together.
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earthand makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
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