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

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.”
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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).