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# נָשַׁב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5380

**blow** — 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

blow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5380/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָשַׁב: vb. blow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5380/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. blow (NH = BH; 𝔗 נְשַׁב (but also נְתַב), Syriac ܢܫܰܒ, all blow; ‖ form of נָשַׁף);— Pf. 3 fs. רוּחַ י׳ נָֽשְׁבָה בּוֹ Is 40:7 the breath of י׳ has blown upon it. Impf. 3 ms. יַשֵּׁב רוּחַ ψ 147:18 he causes his wind to blow; וַיַּשֵּׁב אֹתָם Gn 15:11 and he drove them away (perhaps orig. blow away, drive away by blowing, or by a sound like blowing).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he drove away (1); he makes blow (1); it blows (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 147:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.18/#tree)

יִשְׁלַ֣ח דְּבָר֣וֹ וְיַמְסֵ֑ם יַשֵּׁ֥ב ר֝וּח֗וֹ יִזְּלוּ־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* he.sends word his and he melts.them he.makes.blow wind his they.flow waters

*JPS 1917:* He sendeth forth His word, and melteth them; He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.

[Genesis 15:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.11/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥רֶד הָעַ֖יִט עַל־הַפְּגָרִ֑ים וַיַּשֵּׁ֥ב אֹתָ֖ם אַבְרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.came.down the.bird\[s\] of.prey on the carcasses and he.drove.away them Abram

*JPS 1917:* And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5380.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5380/): 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).