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# עוֹף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5775

**flying creatures** — used 71 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

flying creatures [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5775/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עוֹף: n.m. coll. flying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5775/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 40:17 coll. flying creatures, fowl, insects;—ע׳ abs. Gn 1:20 +, cstr. v 21 +;— fowl birds, Gn 40:17, 19 (E), 7:8 (J), 1:20, 22 (P), 1 K 5:13 +; especially (38 times) ע׳ הַשָּׁמַיִם fowl of the sky, Gn 2:19, 20 (J), 1:26, 28, 30 (P), Ho 2:20 Ec 10:20 +, carrion birds 1 S 17:44, 46 2 S 21:10 1 K 14:11 + 11 times; ע׳ הָרִים ψ 50:11, ע׳ נוֹדֵד Is 16:2, כִּכְלוּב מָלֵא ע׳ Je 5:27; redundantly ע׳ כָּנָף fowl of wing Gn 1:21 (P), ψ 78:27 (for food); for food also Lv 7:26 (P), 17:13; 20:25 (both H), cf. Lv 11:13, 46 (H, clean and unclean); for offering Gn 8:20 (J; הָע׳ הַטָּהוֹר), Lv 1:14 (P). winged insects (clean and unclean) שֶׁרֶץ הָע׳ הַהֹלֵךְ עַל־אַרְבַּע Lv 11:20, 21 (H), שׁ׳ הָע׳ Dt 14:19, so prob. הָע׳ alone v 20; שׁ׳ הָע׳ אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ אַרְבַּע רַגְלָ֑יִם Lv 11:23 (H).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 34 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the bird\[s\] (28); bird\[s\] (20); (the) bird (9).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 14:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.20/#tree)

כָּל־ע֥וֹף טָה֖וֹר תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* any insect clean you.will.eat

*JPS 1917:* Of all clean winged things ye may eat.

[Psalms 50:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.11/#tree)

יָ֭דַעְתִּי כָּל־ע֣וֹף הָרִ֑ים וְזִ֥יז שָׂ֝דַ֗י עִמָּדִֽי׃

*Word for word:* I.know every bird of.\[the\].mountains and moving.creature\[s\] of.\[the\].field \[are\].with me

*JPS 1917:* I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5775.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5775/): 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).