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Breath
Featured studies
6 results- StudyVanity Under the SunOne Hebrew word, hevel, widening from wisdom to pleasure to a life's whole labor to 'all': and the phrase, under the sun, that bounds the search that finds it. What escapes the verdict, and what the…
- StudyPi (Ππ): the Greek letterThe mouth, and the letter of breath, wind and Spirit.
- StudyResh (ר): the Hebrew letterThe head, first, chief, beginning, and one half of the pair Jesus's “tittle” protects.
- StudyThe Valley of Dry BonesBones, then bodies, then breath: Ezekiel 37 in its own three beats, with ruach (wind, breath, Spirit) as the one word the whole vision turns on.
- StudyHe (ה): the Hebrew letterThe breath letter: the one added to Abram's name.
Verses
82 results- VersePsalms 150:6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Hallelujah!
- VerseJob 41:21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
- VerseJob 27:3as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
- VersePsalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- VerseJob 26:13By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
People
1 resultWords (Strong's)
- WordH5396 נִשְׁמָא · nishmâʼ (Hebrew)vital breath. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH7307 רוּחַ · rûwach (Hebrew)wind. The Hebrew word stands 378 times in the original text.
- WordH5315 נֶפֶשׁ · nephesh (Hebrew)properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality. The Hebrew word stands 754 times in the original text.
- WordH5397 נְשָׁמָה · nᵉshâmâh (Hebrew)a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal. The Hebrew word stands 24 times in the original text.
- WordH5301 נָפַח · nâphach (Hebrew)to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire. The Hebrew word stands 12 times in the original text.
Themes
6 results- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeForgivenessForgiveness in Scripture is not a sentiment but a transaction: a debt is real, and someone absorbs it. The Old Testament establishes this before it ever preaches it. The…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
- ThemeHolinessHoliness begins as a claim about God before it becomes a summons to His people. The Hebrew *qadosh* carries a double sense — "set apart" and "whole, intact" — and Leviticus…
Topics
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3 results- VoiceGregory PalamasGregory was born in 1296 at Constantinople, into a family close to the imperial court; his father was a senator and a tutor to the young emperor. Gregory was educated for the…
- VoiceJRR TolkienJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, where his father managed a bank. The father died of rheumatic fever when Ronald was four…
- VoiceDiadochos of PhotikiDiadochos was bishop of Photike, a town in Epirus in northwestern Greece, in the middle of the fifth century. One firm date anchors him: in 457 he signed the letter that the…
Apocrypha (study resources)
21 results- Study resourceBaruch 6:25The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most high price.
- Study resourceSirach 33:20As long as thou livest and hast breath in thee, give not thyself over to any.
- Study resource2 Esdras 16:61He made man, and put his heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding.
- Study resource2 Esdras 3:5And gavest a body unto Adam without soul, which was the workmanship of thine hands, and didst breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before thee.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 15:5The sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it, and so they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.
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H5396נִשְׁמָא nishmâʼ — vital breathH7307רוּחַ rûwach — windH5315נֶפֶשׁ nephesh — properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitalityH5397נְשָׁמָה nᵉshâmâh — a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animalH5301נָפַח nâphach — to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expireH7309רְוָחָה rᵉvâchâh — relief