Strong H57742 sensesעוּף
to fly · gloom
- Transliteration
- ‛ûph
- Pronunciation
- oof
The 2 senses of Strong H5774
The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H5774 appears in 29 verses of the KJV, all senses together.
General definition
A primitive root; to cover (with wings or obscurity); hence (as denominative from H5775) to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning): - {brandish} be (wax) {faint} flee {away} fly (away - {}) X {set} shine {forth} weary.
In the Bible
Translated in the KJV by
- fly17
- flieth3
- flying2
- be1
- faint1
- flew1
- set1
- shine1
- thee1
- wax1
- weary1
First verses
- Genesis 1:20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
- Deuteronomy 4:17The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
- Judges 4:21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
- 1 Samuel 14:28Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
- 1 Samuel 14:31And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
- 2 Samuel 21:15Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
- 2 Samuel 22:11And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
- Job 5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- Job 11:17And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
- Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- Psalms 18:10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
- Psalms 55:6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
- Psalms 90:10The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
- Psalms 91:5Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
- Proverbs 23:5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
- Proverbs 26:2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
- Isaiah 6:2Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
- Isaiah 6:6Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
- Isaiah 11:14But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
- Isaiah 14:29Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.