puach · blow, breathe

What it means

puach (פּוּחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “blow, breathe”.

To blow, to puff: to breathe out; hence to speak with contempt or to scoff at someone.

How to say it

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

1. To blow air out forcefully, like the wind or the breath of God.
2. To scorn someone.
3. To speak, truth or lies.
4. To hasten toward fulfillment, toward the end.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• breathes ×3
• whoever utters ×3
• Blow ×2
• utters ×2
• he snorts ×1
• inflame ×1
• it hastens ×1
• one they snort at ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×7
• Song of Songs×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Psalms 10:5

  His ways endure at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; at all his adversaries he snorts.

• Psalms 12:5

  “Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, now I will arise,” says YHWH; “I will set in safety the one they snort at.”

• Proverbs 6:19

  one who breathes out lies, a false witness, and one who sends out quarrels among brothers.

• Proverbs 12:17

  Whoever utters faithfulness declares righteousness, but a witness of lies, deceit.

• Proverbs 14:5

  A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness utters lies.

• Proverbs 14:25

  A witness of truth delivers souls, but one who utters lies is deceit.

• Proverbs 19:5

  A witness of lies will not go unpunished, and whoever utters lies will not escape.

• Proverbs 19:9

  A witness of lies will not go unpunished, and whoever utters lies will perish.

• Proverbs 29:8

  Men of scoffing inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.

• Song of Songs 2:17

  Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a fawn on the mountains of Bether.

• Song of Songs 4:6

  Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

• Song of Songs 4:16

  Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, let its balsams flow. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat his choice fruits.

• Ezekiel 21:31

  And I will pour out on you my indignation; with the fire of my wrath I will blow on you; and I will give you into the hand of brutish men, craftsmen of destruction.

• Habakkuk 2:3

  For the vision is yet for the appointed time; and it hastens toward the end, and it will not lie. If it delays, wait for it, for it will surely come; it will not be late.