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Strong's #05395 - נָשַׁם
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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1) to pant
1a) (Qal) to pant
1a1) of a woman in travail or labour
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2443) msn (נסהמ NShM) AC: Pant CO: Breath AB: ?: [from: ms]
V) msn (נסהמ NShM) - Pant: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) destroy - Strongs: H5395 (נָשַׁם)
Nf1) emsn (נסהמה NShMH) - Breath: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (25): breath, blast, spirit, inspiration, soul - Strongs: H5396 (נִשְׁמָה), H5397 (נְשָׁמָה)
if2) tmsnt (תנסהמת TNShMT) - Tinshemet: An unknown animal. KJV (3): swan, mole - Strongs: H8580 (תִּנְשֶׁמֶת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
breathe, blow; Arabic 
gently breathe (of wind), etc.; see seek a thing with labour and perseverance (Lane3032); 
a soul, Lane ib.); — pant, of the deep and strong breathing of a woman in travail; Qal Imperfect 1 singular אֶשֹּׁם Isaiah 42:14.
[נִשְׁמָה] noun feminine breath (see Biblical Hebrew, √ נשׁם); — suffix נִשְׁמְתָח Daniel 5:23, i.e. breath of life.
נָשַׁם fut. אֶשֹּׁם to pant, used of a woman in child-birth, Isaiah 42:14. Kindred roots are נָשַׁב, נָשַׁף transp. נָפַשׁ; compare Arab. نفس to pant; also, to bring forth, to bear. (Elsewhere fut. יִשֹּׁם belongs to the root שָׁמַם.)
Hence תִּנְשֶׁמֶת, and
