'Fly' in the Bible
Then God said, “Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”
But mankind is born for troubleas surely as sparks fly upward.
My days fly by faster than a runner;they flee without seeing any good.
He will fly away like a dream and never be found;he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
I said, “If only I had wings like a dove!I would fly away and find rest.
Our lives last seventy yearsor, if we are strong, eighty years.Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.
As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,for it makes wings for itselfand flies like an eagle to the sky.
On that daythe Lord will whistle to the flythat is at the farthest streams of the Nileand to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Who are these who fly like a cloud,like doves to their shelters?
Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird:no birth, no gestation, no conception.
Their horses are swifter than leopardsand more fierce than wolves of the night.Their horsemen charge ahead;their horsemen come from distant lands.They fly like an eagle, swooping to devour.
Then the Lord will appear over them,and His arrow will fly like lightning.The Lord God will sound the trumpetand advance with the southern storms.
The woman was given two wings of a great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent’s presence to her place in the wilderness, where she was fed for a time, times, and half a time.