Aramaic

Wing

גַּףStrong’s H1611

gaph

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Gaph is the Aramaic word usually translated “wings” and “wings its”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.”

Daniel 7:4 KJV

Meaning

Wing (of bird)

How it's translated

and wings 1
wings its 1
wings 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 7:6In contextAfter this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

Aramaic dictionary

גַּף gaph · wing

wing (of bird)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “wing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

WING, noun

The limb of a fowl by which it flies.
The limb of an insect by which it flies.
In botany, the side petal of a papilionaceous corol; also, an appendage of seeds, by means of which they are wafted in the air and scattered; also, any membranous or leafy dilatation of a footstalk, or of the angles of a stem, branch or flower stalk, or of a calyx.
Flight; passage by the wind; as, to be on the wind; to take wing

All definitions and other forms of “wing”

Means of flying; acceleration.
Motive or incitement of flight.
The flank or extreme body or part of an army.
Any side-piece.
In gardening, a side-shoot.
In architecture, a side-building, less than the main edifice.
In fortification, the longer sides of hornworks, crown-works, etc.
In a fleet, the ships on the extremities, when ranged in a line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
In a ship, the wings are those parts of the hold and orlop deck, which are nearest the sides.
In Scripture, protection; generally in the plural. Psalms 63:7 Exodus 19:4

WING, verb transitive

To furnish with wings; to enable to fly or to move with celerity.
To supply with side bodies; as on either side well winged.
To transport by flight.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.