ἐμπνέω
empnéō · G1709 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to threaten strongly, to make firm threats
(An idiom, literally: to breathe out threat) To express dire threats
ExamplesActs 9:1 Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- φόνοςmurder 1
- ἀπειλήthreat 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto+ μαθητήςdisciple 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔτιstill 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀπειλέω apeiléō · G546 · to threaten, threat
- Direct synonym in the threatening sense; ἐμπνέω in Acts 9:1 describes breathing out threats/slaughter, and ἀπειλέω is the standard Greek verb for threatening (Acts 4:17, 1 Pet 2:23)
In the other Testament 1 word
- נָפַח nâphach · H5301 · to blow, to breathe, to breathe (one's) last
- Hebrew verb for breathing/blowing, used in contexts of life-breath and divine animation (Gen 2:7, Job 4:9), semantically equivalent to the breathing/animation sense of ἐμπνέω
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To threaten strongly, to make firm threats33.293
- This verb literally means to breathe, used figuratively of Saul breathing out threats and violent intent against the disciples before his conversion — "Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest" (Acts 9:1).
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (T WH ἐνπνέω, see ἐν, III. 3); 1. to breathe in or on (from Homer down). 2. to inhale…
1. to breathe in or on (from Homer down).
2. to inhale (Aeschylus, Plato, others); with partitive genitive, ἀπειλῆς καί φόνου, threatening and slaughter were so to speak the element from which he drew his breath, Acts 9:1; see Meyer at the passage, cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 9c.; (Buttmann, 167 (146)); ἐμπνέον ζωῆς, the Sept. Josh 10:40.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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