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# נָשַׁם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5395

**pant** — 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

pant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5395/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נשׁם: vb. pant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5395/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pant (NH in nn. נְשִׁימָה, נְשָׁמָה, 𝔗 נִשְׁמָא, נִשְׁמְתָא; late Aramaic Ithpe.; Syriac ܢܫܰܡ breathe, blow; Arabic نَسَمَ gently breathe (of wind), etc.; v. seek a thing with labour and perseverance (Lane 3032); نَسَمَةٌ a soul, Lane ib.);—pant, of the deep and strong breathing of a woman in travail; Impf. 1 s. אֶשֹּׁם Is 42:14.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I puff (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 42:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.14/#tree)

הֶחֱשֵׁ֙יתִי֙ מֵֽעוֹלָ֔ם אַחֲרִ֖ישׁ אֶתְאַפָּ֑ק כַּיּוֹלֵדָ֣ה אֶפְעֶ֔ה אֶשֹּׁ֥ם וְאֶשְׁאַ֖ף יָֽחַד׃

*Word for word:* I.have.been.silent from a.long.time I.have.kept.silent I.have.restrained.myself like.(the) \[woman who\].gives.birth I.groan I.puff and I.pant together

*JPS 1917:* I have long time held My peace, I have been still, and refrained Myself; now will I cry like a travailing woman, gasping and panting at once.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5395.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5395/): 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).