Lexical Summary oph: flying creatures Original Word: עוֹףTransliteration: oph Phonetic Spelling: (ofe) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: flying creatures Meaning: flying creatures Strong's Concordance bird, that flieth, flying, fowl From uwph; a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively -- bird, that flieth, flying, fowl. see HEBREW uwph Brown-Driver-Briggs H5775. oph עוֺף70 noun masculineGenesis 40:17 collective flying creatures, fowl, insects; — ׳ע absolute Genesis 1:20 +, construct 1:21 +; — 1 fowl, birds, Genesis 40:17, 19 (E), 7:8 (J), 1:20, 22 (P), 1 Kings 5:13 +; especially (38 t.) ׳ע הַשָּׁמַיִם fowl of sky, Genesis 2:19-20, (J), 1:26, 28, 30 (P), Hosea 2:20; Ecclesiastes 10:20 +, carrion birds 1 Samuel 17:44, 46; 2 Samuel 21:10; 1 Kings 14:11 11t.; ׳ע הָרִים Psalm 50:11, ׳ע נוֺדֵד Isaiah 16:2, ע מָלֵא ׳כִּכְלוּב Jeremiah 5:27; redundantly ׳ע כָּנָף fowl of wing Genesis 1:21 (P), Psalm 78:27 (for food); for food also Leviticus 7:26 (P), 17:13; 20:25 (both H), compare 11:13, 46 (H, clean and unclean); for offering Genesis 8:20 (J; ׳הָע הַטָּהוֺר), Leviticus 1:14 (P). 2 winged insects (clean and unclean) הָע ׳שֶׁרֶץ עַלאַֿרְבַּע הַהֹלֵךְ Leviticus 11:20-21, (H), ׳שׁ ׳הָע Deuteronomy 14:19, so probably ׳הָע alone 14:20; יִם רַגְלָ֑ אַרְבַּע אֲשֶׁרלֿוֺ ׳שׁ ׳הָע Leviticus 11:23 (H). |