Limitless Word
עוּףʻûwph/oof/
HebrewH577430 occurrences (KJV)

to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning)

KJV renders it: brandish, be (wax) faint, flee away, fly (away), [idiom] set, shine forth, weary.

Where it appears(showing the first 29 of 30)

  • Gen 1:20God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
  • Deut 4:17the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
  • Judg 4:21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.
  • 1 Sam 14:28Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’” The people were faint.
  • 1 Sam 14:31They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
  • 2 Sam 21:15The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
  • 2 Sam 22:11He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.
  • Job 5:7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
  • Job 11:17Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.
  • Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
  • Ps 18:10He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
  • Ps 55:6I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
  • Ps 90:10The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
  • Ps 91:5You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;
  • Prov 23:5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
  • Prov 26:2Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.
  • Isa 6:2Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.
  • Isa 6:6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
  • Isa 11:14They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.
  • Isa 14:29Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
  • Isa 30:6The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
  • Isa 31:5As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”
  • Isa 60:8“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
  • Ezek 32:10Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
  • Hos 9:11As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
  • Nah 3:16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
  • Hab 1:8Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
  • Zech 5:1Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
  • Zech 5:2He said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.