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# מַפָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4646

**breathing out** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

breathing out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4646/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַפָּח²: breathing out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4646/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] breathing out;—only cstr. מַפַּח נֶפֶשׁ Jb 11:20 a breathing out of life = expiring (cf. נפח Jb 31:39 Je 15:9).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[will be\] a gasp (1).

## In the verses

[Job 11:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.20/#tree)

וְעֵינֵ֥י רְשָׁעִ֗ים תִּ֫כְלֶ֥ינָה וּ֭מָנוֹס אָבַ֣ד מִנְהֶ֑ם וְ֝תִקְוָתָ֗ם מַֽפַּח־נָֽפֶשׁ׃פ

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] eyes of.wicked.\[people\] they.will.fail and a.place.of.escape it.will.be.lost from them and hope their \[will.be\].a.gasp of.life

*JPS 1917:* But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4646.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4646/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).