נָשַׁף
nâshaph · H5398 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to blow, to cause to blow
Causative process by which deities cause the wind to blow from one place to another
ExamplesExodus 15:10 “You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Isaiah 40:24 Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, But He merely blows on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them away like stubble.
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
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with+ רוּחַspirit, wind 1
- בin/on/with+ הֶםthem 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 3 words
- שָׁאַף shâʼaph · H7602 · to gasp, to pant, to sniff the air
- Both terms involve breathing or air-expulsion actions. One is simply "blow," while the other covers a broader range including violent breathing or snuffing actions and metaphorical extensions such as desire or devouring — the overlap is real but narrow, centered on breath-related action.
- פּוּחַ pûwach · H6315 · to blow upon, to stir up (an area)
- Both terms are blowing verbs with overlapping senses — "blow" and "blow (upon)."
- נָפַח nâphach · H5301 · to blow, to breathe, to breathe (one's) last
- Both lexemes denote the physical action of blowing (air/breath), a genuine same-language near-synonym relationship. נָפַח (nâphach, H5301) has broader semantic extensions (metaphorical uses like "give up life," "seething"), but the core "blow" sense overlaps directly with נָשַׁף (nâshaph, H5398)'s simpler profile.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Blow002002001002
- The word describes blowing, as the LORD will blow on the coals of judgment or a wind blows over the grass so it withers (Isaiah 40:7's related imagery), tying the word to this act of forceful exhalation.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5398. nashaph נָשַׁף verb blow (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Christian-Palestinian…
נָשַׁף verb blow (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic SchwIdioticon 58; Arabic (vulgar) id. (Dozyii. 667; on usual meaning compare WetzstZPV xiv. 7); || form of נשׁב, compare JenZA iv (1889), 268); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳נ בָּהֶם Isa 40:24 he hath blow upon them (of ׳י under figure of wind); 2 masculine singular בְרוּחֲךָ נָשַׁפְתָּ Exo 15:10 (song).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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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