BDB5288
[נָפַח] verb breathe, blow (כור נפוח Eccl 43:4 a furnace blown upon (heated hot); Late Hebrew נָפַח id., ᵑ7 נְפַח, Syriac [untranscribed source text 3370]; Assyrian napâ—u , inflame, nappa—u , smith DlHWB 474; Arabic ( [untranscribed source text 3371] and) [untranscribed source text 3372] blow; Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 3373] or [untranscribed source text 3374] Di712); —
Qal
Perfect 3 feminine singular נָָֽפְחָה
Jer 15:9
וְנָפַ֫חְתִּי
Hag 1:9
וְנָפַחְתִּ֫י
Ezek 22:21
Imperfect
וַיִּפַּח
Gen 2:7
Imperative feminine singular פְּחִי
Ezek 37:9
Infinitive
(לָ)פַ֫חַת
Ezek 22:20
Perfect
active
נֹפֵחַ
Isa 54:16
passive
נָפוּחַ
Jer 1:13; Job 41:12 —
breathe, blow, וַיִּפַּח בְּאַפּוֺ נִשְׁמַת
חַיִּים
Gen 2:7 (
J
); followed by ב also Ezek 37:9; Isa 54:16 and Hag 1:9
blow into it (to scatter it); followed by עַלֿ: לָפַחַת
עָלָיו אֵשׁ
Ezek 22:20
to blow fire upon it (ore, for melting), so figurative Ezek 22:21
and I will blow upon you with (ב) the fire of my wrath
; נַפְשָׁהּ
׳
נ
Jer 15:9
she hath breathed out her life (of a mother, compare Hiph`il); absolute
סִיר נָפוּחַ
Jer 1:13
a blown (i.e. well-heated, boiling) pot, compare ׳
דּוּד נ
Job 41:12
(simile).
Pu`al
Perfect
אֵשׁ לֹא נֻפָּ֑ח
Job 20:26
a fire not blown (by any human breath). So perhaps also Num 21:30 (reading ׳
עַדנֻֿפַּח אֵשׁ וגו
until fire was blown [hot] as far as Medeba), compare
Di.
Hiph`il
Perfect 1 singular נֶפֶשׁ בְּעָלֶיהָ חִפָּ֑חְתִּי
Job
31:39 (or if) the life of its (the land's) owners I have
caused them to breathe out; וְהִפַּחְתֶּם אוֺתוֺ
Mal 1:13
and ye have sniffed at it (in contempt).