עוֹף
ʻôwph · ofe
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5774 (עוּף);
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to fasten and establish › to speak, the word
To see and know that works to fasten and establish that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עוֹף above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
71 occurrences · 71 OT · 0 NT · 36 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- unto the fowls4 · 9%
- and every fowl3 · 6%
- and the fowls3 · 6%
- and the birds3 · 6%
- fowls3 · 6%
- shall the fowls3 · 6%
- for the fowls3 · 6%
- fowl2 · 4%
- and over the fowl2 · 4%
- of fowls2 · 4%
- both of fowl2 · 4%
- the fowls2 · 4%
- all the fowls2 · 4%
- and with the fowls2 · 4%
- and fowl1 · 2%
- and let fowl1 · 2%
- and to every fowl1 · 2%
- and to the fowl1 · 2%
- and of fowls1 · 2%
- and the fowl1 · 2%
- and upon every fowl1 · 2%
- that is with you, of the fowl1 · 2%
- be of fowls1 · 2%
- whether it be of fowl1 · 2%
- all fowls1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.