עוּף ʻûwph — to cover (with wings or obscurity)
Translated in the KJV as brandish, be faint, flee away, fly, × set, shine forth, weary.
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).
ʻûwph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Participle (active) 3Infinitive construct 2Cohortative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
Then 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.
Then 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.
Polel
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 2Infinitive construct 1
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.
Above 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.
Rejoice 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.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Hitpolel
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›