נָשַׁף
nashaf · blow
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5398 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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nashaf (נָשַׁף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “blow”.
(of the wind).
How to say it
na·shaf
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To send out a strong blast that moves the sea or dries up what lives.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- You blew ×1
- when he also blows ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 15:10
You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- Isaiah 40:24
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely has their trunk taken root in the earth, when he also blows on them, and they wither, and the storm like stubble carries them off.