Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem)
KJV Usage: blow, breath, give up, cause to lose (life), seething, snuff
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
נָפַח (na.phach) — to breathe. 1) to breathe, blow, sniff at, seethe, give up or lose (life) 1a) (Qal) to breathe, blow 1b) (Pual) to be blown 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to breathe out
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַפָּח · מַפֻּחַ · תַּפּוּחַ
Blow | verb qal, verb pu'al
to blow, to breathe = causative action by which humans or deities cause air to flow from their nose or mouth upon an object
GEN 2:7 · JOB 20:26 · ISA 54:16 · EZK 22:20 · EZK 22:21 · EZK 37:9 · HAG 1:9
Dead | verb qal
Collocation: נפח נֶפֶשׁ
to breathe (one's) last literally: to blow (one's) self; hence: = process by which humans breathe their last breath and pass away
Dead | verb hif
Collocation: נפח נֶפֶשׁ
to cause to breathe (one's) last literally: to cause to blow (someone's) life; hence: = causative process by which humans cause other humans to breathe their last breath and pass away
Despise | verb hif
to snort, to sniff exact meaning unknown; probably: = action by which humans give expression to an emotion of contempt by releasing a little bit of air through the nose
1 JER 15:9 NIV | NJB "gasps for breath" GNT "gasping for breath" CEV "struggles for breath" | RSV NRSV "swooned away" ESV "fainted away" | NJPS "disconsolate" REB "sank into despair" 2 JOB 31:39 RSV NRSV NJB "caused the death" GNT "let starve" ESV "made breathe their last" | NIV "broken the spirit" NJPS "made despair" REB "left to languish" CEV "caused them pain"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[נָפַח] vb. breathe, blow Qal breathe, blow
Pu. a fire not blown
Hiph. (or if) the life of its (the land’s) owners I have caused them to breathe out
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