Bird
עוֹףStrong’s H5775oph
Appears in 70 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Oph is the Hebrew word usually translated “bird of”, “bird” and “among the bird”. It appears in 70 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Flying creatures, fowl, insects, birdsfowl, birds · winged insects
How it's translated
- bird of 22
- the bird 7
- bird 4
- to bird of 4
- and the bird 3
- among the bird 3
- wing 3
- for bird of 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 22
- Leviticus 9
- Jeremiah 9
- Ezekiel 6
- 1 Kings 4
- Psalms 4
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
- Genesis 1:26And 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 cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:28And 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, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
- Genesis 2:19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
All 70 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עוֹף oph · bird
1) flying creatures, fowl, insects, birds 1a) fowl, birds 1b) winged insects Aramaic equivalent: oph (עוֹף "bird" H5776)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bird” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BIRD, noun
burd.
- Properly, a chicken, the young of fowls, and hence a small fowl.
- In modern use, any fowl or flying animal.
All definitions and other forms of “bird”
BIRD, verb transitive
To catch birds.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.