Lexicon :: Strong's H5774 - ʿûp̄

Then God said, “Let the waters swarm and abundantly produce living creatures, and let birds soar above the earth [fn]in the open expanse of the heavens.”

They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very tired.

Now the Philistines were at war again with Israel. David went down with his servants, and as they fought against the Philistines, David became weary.

“He rode on a cherub and flew;

He appeared upon the wings of the wind.

“For man is born for trouble,

[As naturally] as sparks fly upward.

“And your [fn]life would be brighter than the noonday;

Darkness [then] would be like the morning.

“He flies away like a dream and cannot be found;

Yes, he is chased away like a vision of the night.

And He rode upon a cherub (storm) and flew;

And He sped on the wings of the wind.

And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!

I would fly away and be at rest.

The days of our life are [fn]seventy years—

Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;

Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,

For it is soon gone and we fly away.

You will not be afraid of the terror of night,

Nor of the arrow that flies by day,

When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone.

For wealth certainly makes itself wings

Like an eagle that flies to the heavens.

Like the sparrow in her wandering, like the swallow in her flying,

So the curse without cause does not come and alight [on the undeserving].

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

Ephraim and Judah will [unite and] swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines toward the west;

Together they will plunder the sons (Arabs) of the east.

They will possess Edom and Moab,

And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.

“Do not rejoice, O Philistia, any of you,

Because the rod [of Judah] that struck you is broken;

For out of the serpent’s root will come a viper [King Hezekiah of Judah],

And its offspring will be a flying serpent.

A [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning the beasts of the Negev (the South):

Through a land of trouble and anguish,

From [fn]where come lioness and lion, viper and [fiery] flying serpent,

They carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys

And their treasures on the humps of camels,

To a people (Egyptians) who cannot benefit them.

Like flying birds, so will the LORD of hosts protect Jerusalem;

He will protect and save it,

He will pass over and rescue it.

“Who are these who fly like a cloud

And like doves to their windows?

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird;

No birth, no pregnancy, and [because of their impurity] no conception.

You have increased your traders more than the [visible] stars of heaven—

The creeping locust strips and destroys and then flies away.

“Their horses are swifter than leopards

And keener than [hungry] wolves in the evening,

Their horsemen come galloping,

Their horsemen come from far away;

They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour.

Again I looked up, and I saw a scroll flying in the air!