יְעָף
yᵉʻâph · H3288 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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flight
Action by which a winged living creature moves through the air by flapping its wings
ExamplesDaniel 9:21 while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ יְעָףflight 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- מְהֵרָה mᵉhêrâh · H4120 · quickly, with haste, soon
- Hebrew adverb denoting speed or haste, overlapping with יְעָף in the semantic domain of swift motion, though מְהֵרָה emphasizes promptness or haste rather than the flying/swooping motion sometimes associated with יְעָף.
- קַל qal · H7031 · light, fast, swift
- Hebrew adjective/adverb denoting swiftness or speed, often used of rapid motion (e.g., swift messengers, fleet animals), semantically near to יְעָף but קַל emphasizes lightness and fleetness as inherent qualities.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ταχύ tachý · G5035 · quickly, hurriedly, swift
- Greek adverb denoting swiftness or speed, functionally equivalent to Hebrew יְעָף in conveying rapid motion or action.
- ταχέως tachéōs · G5030 · quickly, hurriedly, swift
- Greek adverb expressing swiftness, another translation-equivalent for the sense of rapid movement conveyed by יְעָף.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Move002002001012
- יְעָף ties to a sense of swift or exhausted movement, as Gabriel came to Daniel 'in extreme weariness' from his flight (Daniel 9:21).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3288. yeaph יְעָף noun [masculine] weariness, faintness (Aramaism, according to LagBN…
יְעָף noun [masculine] weariness, faintness (Aramaism, according to LagBN 175); — בִּיעָף מֻעָף weary with weariness, utterly weary Dan 9:21 (from winged flight, said of Gabriel).
II. יעף (√ of following; compare Arabic ascend a mountain, hill).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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