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 →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָשַׁף: vb. blow tree →

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 · 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 · 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.

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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).

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