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# פּוּחַ

Biblical Hebrew

**breathe** — used 10 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

breathe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5bc_5d5_5bc_5d7_5b7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פּוּחַ: vb. breathe, blow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5bc_5d5_5bc_5d7_5b7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. breathe, blow (NH פּוּחַ blow out; Arabic (فوخ), فَاخَ = Heb., so Aramaic פּוּחַ, ܦܳܚ );— Impf. 3 ms. יָפוּחַ הַיּוֹם Ct 2:17; 4:6 until the day breathes, i.e. grows cool. Impf. 3 ms. יָפִיחַ ψ 10:5 +; יָפִחַ Pr 14:25; וְיָפֵחַ Hb 2:3, etc.; Imv. fs. הָפִיחִי Ct 4:16;— cause garden (acc.) to exhale (sc. odours) Ct 4:16. puff, snort, against, ב pers., ψ 10:5. עַל pers., Ez 21:36 with the fire of my wrath will I blow against thee. excite, inflame city Pr 29:8. c. לוֹ ψ 12:6 puff, = pant for it (so most; Thes Hi al. against whom men puff; Bae אֹפִיעַ לוֹ I will shine forth to him); לַקֵּץ Hb 2:3 the vision panteth (hasteth) towards the end (so most). breathe out, utter, כְּזָבִים Pr 6:19; 14:5, 25; 19:5, 9, אֱמוּנָה 12:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he breathes out (6); \[one who\] he breathes out (1); \[which\] he pants (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 12:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.17/#tree)

יָפִ֣יחַ אֱ֭מוּנָה יַגִּ֣יד צֶ֑דֶק וְעֵ֖ד שְׁקָרִ֣ים מִרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* he.breathes.out faithfulness he.declares righteousness and a.witness of.lies deceit

*JPS 1917:* He that breatheth forth truth uttereth righteousness; but a false witness deceit.

[Proverbs 14:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.25/#tree)

מַצִּ֣יל נְ֭פָשׁוֹת עֵ֣ד אֱמֶ֑ת וְיָפִ֖חַ כְּזָבִ֣ים מִרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].delivering lives a.witness of.reliability and he.breathes.out lies deceit

*JPS 1917:* A true witness delivereth souls; but he that breatheth forth lies is all deceit.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5bc_5d5_5bc_5d7_5b7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5bc_5d5_5bc_5d7_5b7/): 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).