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# נָפַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5314

**take breath** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

take breath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5314/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָפַשׁ: vb.denom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5314/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. (cf. Syriac ܢܰܦܶܫ refresh; ܐܶܬܢܦܶܫ, ܐܶܬܢܰܦܰܫ be refreshed; Ethiopic ነፍሰ );— Impf. 3 ms. יִנָּפֵשׁ Ex 23:12 (E) 2 S 16:14; וַיִּנָּפַ֑שׁ Ex 31:17 (P);—take breath, refresh oneself.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he refreshed himself (2); he will refresh himself (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 16:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.14/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֥א הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ וְכָל־הָעָ֥ם אֲשֶׁר־אִתּ֖וֹ עֲיֵפִ֑ים וַיִּנָּפֵ֖שׁ שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and he.came the king and all the people which \[was\].with him exhausted and he.refreshed.himself there

*JPS 1917:* And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.

[Exodus 23:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.12/#tree)

שֵׁ֤שֶׁת יָמִים֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה מַעֲשֶׂ֔יךָ וּבַיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י תִּשְׁבֹּ֑ת לְמַ֣עַן יָנ֗וּחַ שֽׁוֹרְךָ֙ וַחֲמֹרֶ֔ךָ וְיִנָּפֵ֥שׁ בֶּן־אֲמָתְךָ֖ וְהַגֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* six days you.will.do work(s) your and on the day (the) seventh you.will.rest so.that it.may.rest ox your and donkey your and he.will.refresh.himself the.child your.female.slave your and the sojourner

*JPS 1917:* Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5314.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5314/): 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).