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Gematria of Fly

6 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “fly” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 2,668 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

The fly in the Tanakh — every verse →

Hebrew equivalents
6
Occurrences
2,668
Distinct values
6

The 6 Hebrew words rendered “fly”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

עָשָׂהʻâsâh×2,629 in the TanakhH6213

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

Standard 375 →Gadol 375Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 42Atbash 99Perati 94,925Milui 496

First appearance ·Genesis 1:7בראשית א:זוַיַּעַשׂ

See all 530 occurrences of the spelling עשה →

עוּףʻûwph×30 in the TanakhH5774

to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning)

Standard 156 →Gadol 876Katan 21Siduri (ordinal) 39Atbash 93Perati 11,336Milui 224

First appearance ·Genesis 1:20בראשית א:כיְעוֹפֵף

See all 27 occurrences of the spelling עוף →

דָּאָהdâʼâh×4 in the TanakhH1675

to dart, i.e. fly rapidly

Standard 10 →Gadol 10Katan 10Siduri (ordinal) 10Atbash 590Perati 42Milui 551

First appearance ·Deuteronomy 28:49דברים כח:מטיִדְאֶה

זְבוּבzᵉbûwb×2 in the TanakhH2070

a fly (especially one of a stinging nature)

Standard 17 →Gadol 17Katan 17Siduri (ordinal) 17Atbash 750Perati 93Milui 904

First appearance ·Isaiah 7:18ישעיהו ז:יחלַזְּבוּב

See all 4 occurrences of the spelling זבוב →

עִיטʻîyṭ×2 in the TanakhH5860

to swoop down upon (literally or figuratively)

Standard 89 →Gadol 89Katan 17Siduri (ordinal) 35Atbash 97Perati 5,081Milui 569

First appearance ·1 Samuel 15:19שמואל א טו:יטוַתַּעַט

See all 2 occurrences of the spelling עיט →

אָבַרʼâbar×1 in the TanakhH82

to soar

Standard 203 →Gadol 203Katan 5Siduri (ordinal) 23Atbash 703Perati 40,005Milui 1,033

First appearance ·Job 39:26איוב לט:כויַֽאֲבֶר

See all 2 occurrences of the spelling אבר →

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Quick answers

What is the gematria of fly?

The Tanakh renders “fly” with 6 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: עשה = 375, עוף = 156, דאה = 10, and 3 more.

How do you say fly in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 6 Hebrew words for “fly”; the most frequent are עשה (ʻâsâh), 2,629 times; עוף (ʻûwph), 30 times; דאה (dâʼâh), 4 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.