נָפַחnâphach
breathe, blow
Pronunciation: naw-fakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5301
Meanings
Qal: breathe, blow (Jeremiah 15:9; Haggai 1:9; Ezekiel 22:21)
Pu`al: was blown (Job 20:26; Numbers 21:30)
Hiph`il: caused, to breathe (Job 31:39; Malachi 1:13)
Same root
- מַפָּחmappâch · H4646a breathing out (of life), i.e. expiring
- מַפֻּחַmappuach · H4647the bellows (i.e. blower) of aforge
- נֹפַחNôphach · H5302Nophach, a place in Moab
- תַּפּוּחַtappûwach · H8598an apple (from its fragrance), i.e. the fruit or the tree (probably includ. others of the pome order, as the quince, the orange, etc.)
Where it appears
Appears 12 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
- Job 20:26 Their treasures will be thrown into deepest darkness. A wildfire will devour their goods, consuming all they have left.
- Job 31:39 or if I have stolen its crops or murdered its owners,
- Job 41:20 Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
- Isaiah 54:16 “I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals beneath the forge and makes the weapons of destruction. And I have created the armies that destroy.
- Jeremiah 1:13 Then the Lord spoke to me again and asked, “What do you see now?” And I replied, “I see a pot of boiling water, spilling from the north.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).