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# נָשַׁף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5398

**blow** — used 2 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/1504/5398/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָשַׁף: vb. blow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5398/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. blow (NH = BH; Chr-Pal.-Aramaic ܢܫܦ SchwallyIdiot. 58; Arabic نَسَفَ (vulg.) id. (Dozy ii. 667; on usually meaning cf. WetzstZPV xiv. 7); ‖ form of נשׁב, cf. Jen ZA iv (1889), 268);— Pf. 3 ms. נ׳ בָּהֶם Is 40:24 he hath blown upon them (of י׳ under fig. of wind); 2 ms. נָשַׁפְתָּ בְרוּחֲךָ Ex 15:10 (song).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 blows (1); you blew (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 15:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.10/#tree)

נָשַׁ֥פְתָּ בְרוּחֲךָ֖ כִּסָּ֣מוֹ יָ֑ם צָֽלֲלוּ֙ כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶת בְּמַ֖יִם אַדִּירִֽים׃

*Word for word:* you.blew with breath your it covered.them \[the\].sea they.sank like (the) lead in.\[the\] waters mighty

*JPS 1917:* Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

[Isaiah 40:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.24/#tree)

אַ֣ף בַּל־נִטָּ֗עוּ אַ֚ף בַּל־זֹרָ֔עוּ אַ֛ף בַּל־שֹׁרֵ֥שׁ בָּאָ֖רֶץ גִּזְעָ֑ם וְגַם־נָשַׁ֤ף בָּהֶם֙ וַיִּבָ֔שׁוּ וּסְעָרָ֖ה כַּקַּ֥שׁ תִּשָּׂאֵֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* even not they.have.been.planted even not they.have.been.sown even not it.has.taken.root in the ground rootstock their and also he.blows on them and they.have.dried.up and a.tempest like (the) chaff it carries.them.off

*JPS 1917:* Scarce are they planted, scarce are they sown, scarce hath their stock taken root in the earth; when He bloweth upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5398.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5398/): 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).