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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #5301 - נָפַח

Transliteration

nâphach

Phonetics

naw-fakh'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

Verb

TWOT

1390

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) to breathe, blow, sniff at, seethe, give up or lose (life)

1a) (Qal) to breathe, blow

1b) (Pual) to be blown

1c) (Hiphil) to cause to breathe out

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 1720 ‑ ἐμφυσάω (em‑foo‑sah'‑o); 2545 ‑ καίω (kah'‑yo);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

KJV (12)

Genesis

Job

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Haggai

Malachi

NAS (14)

Genesis

Job

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Haggai

Malachi

HCS (12)

Genesis

Job

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Haggai

Malachi

BSB (13)

Genesis

Job

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Haggai

Malachi

ESV (11)

Genesis

Job

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Haggai

Malachi

WEB (12)

Genesis

Job

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Haggai

Malachi

Verse Results

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2419) h p n (נפהה NPHh) AC: Blow CO: ? AB: ?: [from: hp]

V) h p n (נפהה NPHh) - Blow: KJV (12): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Pual) blow, breathe, seethe, lose, snuff, give up - Strongs: H5301 (נָפַח)

a^m) h p n m (מנפהה MNPHh) - Blowing: [df: xpm] KJV (1): giving up - Strongs: H4646 (מַפָּח)

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

נָפַח i.q. פּוּחַ to blow, to breathe (an onomatop. root. Compare Germ. fachen, anfachen. Arabic نفح and نفخ to blow; فحَّ and فخ express a harsher snorting sound). Specially

(1) to blow upon any one, followed by בְּ, Ezekiel 37:9.

(2) נָפַה בְּאֵשׁ to blow the fire, Ezekiel 22:21 without בְּ, Ezekiel 22:20, and Isaiah 54:16 דּוּד נָפוּחַ a pot blown upon, i.e. boiling upon a blown fire, Job 41:12; Jeremiah 1:13.

(3) to disperse, or cast away by blowing, followed by בְּ Haggai 1:9.

(4) to breathe out (the soul, the life), Jeremiah 15:9.

Pual to be blown, used of a fire, Job 20:26.

Hiphil

(1) with the addition of נֶפֶשׁ to cause to breathe out the soul, Job 31:39 a hyperbolical expression for to extort sighs, to torment miserably.

(2) to blow away, metaph. i.q. to value lightly, to despise, Malachi 1:13.

Derived nouns, מַפָּח, מַפּוּחַ, תַּפּוּחַ, and

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List of Word Forms

הִפָּֽחְתִּי׃ הפחתי׃ וְהִפַּחְתֶּ֣ם וְנָפַ֣חְתִּי וְנָפַחְתִּ֥י וַיִּפַּ֥ח וּפְחִ֛י והפחתם ויפח ונפחתי ופחי לָפַֽחַת־ לפחת־ נָפ֙וּחַ֙ נָפ֣וּחַ נָפְחָ֥ה נֹפֵ֙חַ֙ נֻפָּ֑ח נפוח נפח נפחה hip·pā·ḥə·tî hipPacheti hippāḥətî lā·p̄a·ḥaṯ- lafachat lāp̄aḥaṯ- nā·p̄ə·ḥāh nā·p̄ū·aḥ nafeChah naFuach nāp̄əḥāh nāp̄ūaḥ nō·p̄ê·aḥ noFeach nōp̄êaḥ nup·pāḥ nupPach nuppāḥ ū·p̄ə·ḥî ufeChi ūp̄əḥî vaiyipPach vehippachTem venafachTi way·yip·paḥ wayyippaḥ wə·hip·paḥ·tem wə·nā·p̄aḥ·tî wəhippaḥtem wənāp̄aḥtî

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