נִשְׁמָא
nishmâʼ · H5396 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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breath
The air that is taken in and expelled through the lungs by humans and animals, which makes them live, and which distinguishes them from inanimate objects like idols; regarded as coming from God
ExamplesDaniel 5:23 but you have risen up against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יַדhand, power 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 2 words
- רוּחַ rûwach · H7307 · spirit
- Hebrew רוּחַ is a well-attested synonym for breath, referring to wind, breath, or spirit as the animating life-force, frequently used in similar contexts.
- נֶפֶשׁ nephesh · H5315 · throat, neck, gullet
- Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ can denote the breathing life-principle or soul, closely related to breath as the essence of living being.
In the other Testament 2 words
- πνοή pnoḗ · G4157 · wind, blowing, to blow
- Greek πνοή is the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew breath terminology, referring to breath or wind as the animating principle of life.
- πνεῦμα pneûma · G4151 · spirit
- Greek πνεῦμα commonly translates Hebrew breath/spirit words, denoting breath, wind, or spirit as life-force.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Blow002002001002
- Daniel 5:23 has Daniel rebuke Belshazzar, “the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
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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