עופר

Uncertain. Apparently not found in other Semitic languages.

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʕupr/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)ofeʁ/

עֹפֶר • (ófer) m (plural indefinite עֳפָרִים, singular construct עֹפֶר־, plural construct עׇפְרֵי־, feminine counterpart עׇפְרָה) [pattern: קֹטֶל]

1. fawn: the young of a deer or a gazelle
   • Tanach, Song of Songs 2:9a, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     דּוֹמֶה דוֹדִי לִצְבִי אוֹ לְעֹפֶר הָאַיָּלִים

     My beloved is like a gazelle, or like a young stag!

   • Tanach, Song of Songs 7:3, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     שְׁנֵי שָׁדַיִךְ כִּשְׁנֵי עֳפָרִים תׇּאֳמֵי צְבִיָּה׃

     Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

2. (midrash) youth, young man
   • c. 1000 - 1400, Yalkut Shimoni, first part, 766:

     מִי מָנָה עֲפַר יַעֲקֹב, כַּמָּה עֳפָרִים יֵשׁ בָּהֶן בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל וְעוֹסְקִין בְּדִבְרֵי תוֹרָה.

     Who has counted the dust of Jacob? How many are the youths in Israel that study the Torah!

• אייל / אַיָּל (ayál, “deer”)
• צְבִי (tsvi, “gazelle”)

עופר / עֹפֶר • (ófer) m or f [pattern: קֹטֶל]

1. a male or female given name, Ofer, Offer, Opher

• H6082 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “עֹפֶר”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 479b
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1055b