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# דָּאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1675

**fly swiftly** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fly swiftly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1675/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּאָה: vb. fly swiftly, dart through the air [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1675/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. fly swiftly, dart through the air (cf. perhaps Arabic دَأْدَأ run vehemently (of camel))— Impf. יִדְאֶה Dt 28:49 + 2 times; וַיֵּ֫דֶא ψ 18:11 (\> ‖ 2 S 22:11 וַיֵּרָא); fly swiftly, dart, of eagle Dt 28:49, in simile of swift army; of Chaldaeans comp. with eagle, in judgment against Moab & Edom Je 48:40; 49:22 (in both ‖ פרשׂ כנפיו); of י׳ in theoph. ψ 18:11 (cf. 2 S 22:11) וַיֵּדֶא על־כנפי רוח (‖ וַיִּרְכַּב עַל־כְּרוּב וַיָּעֹף).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he swooped down (1); he will swoop down (1); it swoops down (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 18:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.11/#tree)

וַיִּרְכַּ֣ב עַל־כְּ֭רוּב וַיָּעֹ֑ף וַ֝יֵּ֗דֶא עַל־כַּנְפֵי־רֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* and he.rode on a.cherub and he.flew and he.swooped.down on \[the\].wings of.\[the\].wind

*JPS 1917:* And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, He did swoop down upon the wings of the wind.

[Jeremiah 48:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.40/#tree)

כִּי־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנֵּ֥ה כַנֶּ֖שֶׁר יִדְאֶ֑ה וּפָרַ֥שׂ כְּנָפָ֖יו אֶל־מוֹאָֽב׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Yahweh there! like (the) eagle someone.will.swoop.down and he.will.spread.out wings his against Moab

*JPS 1917:* For thus saith the LORD: Behold, he shall swoop as a vulture, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1675.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1675/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).