uf · fly

What it means

uf (עוּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fly”.

Also flutter, dart.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To move through the air with wings, like birds and seraphim.
2. To be left without strength from weariness or hunger.
3. To brandish the sword on high in threat.
4. Lack of light: the dark gloom of night or of affliction.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fly ×10
• flying ×5
• flew ×4
• flies ×4
• exhausted ×3
• darkness ×1
• grew weary ×1
• they will swoop down ×1
• when I brandish ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• Job×3
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×7
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 1:20

  And Elohim said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the vault of the heavens.”

• Deuteronomy 4:17

  the representation of any beast that is on the earth, the representation of any winged bird that flies in the heavens,

• Judges 4:21

  But Jael the wife of Heber took the peg of the tent and put the hammer in her hand, and she came to him quietly and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; he was fast asleep and exhausted, and he died.

• 1 Samuel 14:28

  A man of the people answered and said, “Your father solemnly put the people under oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats bread today.’” And the people were exhausted.

• 1 Samuel 14:31

  They struck the Philistines on that day from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people were very exhausted.

• 2 Samuel 21:15

  There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down, and his servants with him, and they fought the Philistines; and David grew weary.

• 2 Samuel 22:11

  He rode on a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind.

• Job 5:7

  but the human being is born for suffering, and the sons of the flame fly high.

• Job 11:17

  And above noonday your lifetime will rise; the darkness will be like the morning.

• Job 20:8

  Like a dream he will fly away, and they will not find him; and he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

• Psalms 18:10

  He rode on a cherub and flew; and he soared on the wings of the wind.

• Psalms 55:6

  And I say, “Oh that I had wings like the dove! I would fly away and settle;

• Psalms 90:10

  The days of our years —in them seventy years, and if by strength eighty years; and their pride is suffering and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

• Psalms 91:5

  You will not fear the dread of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

• Proverbs 23:5

  Will you make your eyes fly to it? It is gone! For it surely makes itself wings; like an eagle it flies to the heavens.

• Proverbs 26:2

  Like a sparrow in its wandering, like a swallow in its flying, so a curse without cause does not arrive.

• Isaiah 6:2

  Seraphim were standing above him; six wings, six wings to each one; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

• Isaiah 6:6

  Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from on the altar.

• Isaiah 11:14

  And they will swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east; Edom and Moab will be the reach of their hand, and the sons of Ammon their subjects.

• Isaiah 14:29

  Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for from the root of the serpent will come out a cobra, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

• Isaiah 30:6

  The burden of the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, where the lioness and the lion are among them, the viper and the flying fiery serpent, they carry on the backs of young donkeys their riches, and on the humps of camels their treasures, to a people that does not profit.

• Isaiah 31:5

  Like birds that fly, so YHWH Tsevaot will protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and rescuing.”

• Isaiah 60:8

  Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

• Ezekiel 32:10

  And I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will bristle at you with horror when I brandish my sword before them; and they will tremble every moment, each for his own soul, on the day of your fall.

• Hosea 9:11

  Ephraim, like a bird their glory will fly away: no birth, and no womb, and no conception.

• Nahum 3:16

  You have multiplied your traders more than the stars of the heavens; the young locust strips off and flies away.

• Habakkuk 1:8

  And swifter than leopards are its horses, and fiercer than wolves of the evening; and its horsemen gallop, and its horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle hastening to devour.

• Zechariah 5:1

  And again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and look, a flying scroll.

• Zechariah 5:2

  And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a flying scroll; its length twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”

And 1 more times.