Lexical Definition

‎נָפַח‎ nâphach (naw-fakh') to breathe ^H:V
a primitive root

blow, breath, give up, cause to lose (life), seething, snuff.

• to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire
• figuratively, to disesteem)

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

See Greek: ἐμφυσάω · καίω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎נָפַח‎] verb breathe, blow (‎כור נפוח‎ Eccl 43:4 a furnace blown upon (heated hot); Late Hebrew ‎נָפַח‎ id., ᵑ7 ‎נְפַח‎, Syriac ; Assyrian napâ—u, inflame, nappa—u, smith Dl^{HWB 474}; Arabic ( and) blow; Ethiopic or Di⁷¹²); —

Qal Perfect 3 feminine singular ‎נָָֽפְחָה‎ Jer 15:9 ‎וְנָפַ֫חְתִּי‎ Hag 1:9 ‎וְנָפַחְתִּ֫י‎ Ezek 22:21 Imperfect ‎וַיִּפַּח‎ Gen 2:7 Imperative feminine singular ‎פְּחִי‎ Ezek 37:9 Infinitive ‎(לָ)פַ֫חַת‎ Ezek 22:20 Perfect active ‎נֹפֵחַ‎ Isa 54:16 passive ‎נָפוּחַ‎ Jer 1:13; Job 41:12* — breathe, blow, ‎וַיִּפַּח בְּאַפּוֺ נִשְׁמַת‎ ‎חַיִּים‎ Gen 2:7 (J); followed by ‎ב‎ also Ezek 37:9; Isa 54:16 and Hag 1:9 blow into it (to scatter it); followed by ‎עַלֿ‎: ‎לָפַחַת‎ ‎עָלָיו אֵשׁ‎ Ezek 22:20 to blow fire upon it (ore, for melting), so figurative Ezek 22:21 and I will blow upon you with (‎ב‎) the fire of my wrath; ‎נַפְשָׁהּ‎ ‎׳‎‎נ‎ Jer 15:9 she hath breathed out her life (of a mother, compare Hiph`il); absolute ‎סִיר נָפוּחַ‎ Jer 1:13 a blown (i.e. well-heated, boiling) pot, compare ‎׳‎‎דּוּד נ‎ Job 41:12* (simile). Pu`al Perfect ‎אֵשׁ לֹא נֻפָּ֑ח‎ Job 20:26 a fire not blown (by any human breath). So perhaps also Num 21:30 (reading ‎׳‎‎עַדנֻֿפַּח אֵשׁ וגו‎ until fire was blown [hot] as far as Medeba), compare Di. Hiph`il Perfect 1 singular ‎נֶפֶשׁ בְּעָלֶיהָ חִפָּ֑חְתִּי‎ Job 31:39 (or if) the life of its (the land's) owners I have caused them to breathe out; ‎וְהִפַּחְתֶּם אוֺתוֺ‎ Mal 1:13 and ye have sniffed at it (in contempt).

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