עוֹף oph

Hebrew word for “bird” · Strong’s H5775 · used 71 times in 70 verses

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Meaning

1) flying creatures, fowl, insects, birds; 1a) fowl, birds; 1b) winged insects; Aramaic equivalent: oph (עוֹף "bird" H5776)

How it is translated

Glosses given for oph in context, with how often each is used:

• birds 41
• bird 15
• among the birds 4
• wing 3
• over the birds 2
• insect 2
• more than the birds 1
• like a bird 1
• like the birds 1
• like bird 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 1 (6), Genesis 7 (5), Leviticus 11 (5), Genesis 8 (3), Genesis 2 (2), Genesis 6 (2), Genesis 9 (2), Genesis 40 (2), Deuteronomy 14 (2), 1 Samuel 17 (2)

Forms

• עוף 25
• העוף 14
• לעוף 8
• ועוף 4
• ובעוף 4
• והעוף 3
• בעוף 3
• כעוף 3
• ולעוף 2
• מעוף 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with oph more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 39
• בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 28
• חַי chay “alive” 25
• רָמַשׂ ramas “to creep” 13
• רֶמֶשׂ remes “creeping” 10
• שָׂדֶה sadeh “land” 16
• אֲדָמָה adamah “land” 11
• מַאֲכָל maakhal “food” 7
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 13
• נְבֵלָה nevelah “carcass” 7
• שֶׁרֶץ sherets “swarm” 6
• מִן־ min “from” 14

Key verses

The verses using oph that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the…
• Genesis 1:28 — And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,…
• Genesis 8:20 — And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
• 1 Samuel 17:46 — This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the…
• Jeremiah 9:10 — For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can…
• Jeremiah 12:4 — How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds;…
• Jeremiah 15:3 — And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to…
• Jeremiah 16:4 — They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they…
• Jeremiah 19:7 — And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of…
• Jeremiah 34:20 — I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of…
• Hosea 2:18 — And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I…
• Hosea 9:11 — As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.