Hebrew verb · H5301
נָפַח
naphachnaw-fakh'
to breathe
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâphach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5301is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5301
to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem)
The King James renders it: blow, breath, give up, cause to lose (life), seething, snuff.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
naphach is rendered "to breathe". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:7וַיִּפַּ֥ח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- blown upon2
- and blow1
- and he blew1
- and I blew1
- and I will blow1
- and you sniff at1
- blows1
- I have caused to breathe out1
- it has been fanned1
- it has panted1
- to blow1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הִפָּֽחְתִּי׃1
- וְהִפַּחְתֶּ֣ם1
- וַיִּפַּ֥ח1
- וְנָפַחְתִּ֥י1
- וְנָפַ֣חְתִּי1
- וּפְחִ֛י1
- לָפַֽחַת־1
- נָפ֣וּחַ1
- נָפ֙וּחַ֙1
- נֹפֵ֙חַ֙1
- נֻפָּ֑ח1
- נָפְחָ֥ה1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq1cs2Hc/Vqq1cs
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular2HVqsmsa
- Hc/Vhq2mp1Hc/Vhq2mp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singular1HC/Vqv2fs
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhp1cs
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVPp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
Genesis
one use
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- וַיִּפַּ֥חvaiyipachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he blew
Job
three uses
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
- נֻפָּ֑חnupachverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been fanned
if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
- הִפָּֽחְתִּי׃hipachetiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have caused to breathe out
Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
- נָפ֣וּחַnafuachverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: blown upon
Isaiah
one use
Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.
- נֹפֵ֙חַ֙nofeachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: blows
Jeremiah
two uses
Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”
- נָפ֙וּחַ֙nafuachverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: blown upon
The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.
- נָפְחָ֥הnafechahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has panted
Ezekiel
three uses
Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
- לָפַֽחַת־lafachat-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to blow
Yes, I will gather you together and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted within the city.
- וְנָפַחְתִּ֥יvenafachtiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will blow
Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
- וּפְחִ֛יufechiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and blow
Haggai
one use
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
- וְנָפַ֣חְתִּיvenafachtiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I blew
Malachi
one use
You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.
- וְהִפַּחְתֶּ֣םvehipachtemHc/Vhq2mptagged: and you sniff at
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
