Bible Verse Dictionary
Genesis 1:20 - Fly
| Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
|---|---|---|---|
| And God | H430 | אֱלֹהִים | [Noun Masculine] gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural {thus} especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative | 
| said | H559 | אָמַר | [Verb] to say (used with great latitude) | 
| Let the waters | H4325 | מַיִם | [Noun Masculine] water; figuratively juice; by euphemism {urine} semen | 
| bring forth abundantly | H8317 | שָׁרַץ | [Verb] to {wriggle} that {is} (by implication) swarm or abound | 
| the moving creature | H8318 | שֶׁרֶץ | [Noun Masculine] a {swarm} that {is} active mass of minute animals | 
| that hath life | H5315 | נֶפֶשׁ | [Noun Feminine] properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) | 
| and fowl | H5775 | עוֹף | [Noun Masculine] a bird (as covered with {feathers} or rather as covering with {wings}) often collective | 
| that may fly | H5774 | עוּף | [Verb] 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) | 
| above | H5921 | עַל | [Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | 
| the earth | H776 | אֶרֶץ | [Noun Feminine] the earth (at {large} or partitively a land) | 
| in | H5921 | עַל | [Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | 
| the open | H6440 | פָּנִים | [Noun Masculine] from 6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ({before } etc.) | 
| firmament | H7549 | רָקִיעַ | [Noun Masculine] properly an {expanse} that {is} the firmament or (apparently) visible arch of the sky | 
| of heaven | H8064 | שָׁמַיִם | [Noun Masculine] from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds {move} as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) | 
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
