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'Breath' in the Bible

for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

He took his last breath and died at a ripe old age, old and contented, and he was gathered to his people.

This is the length of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.

When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.

By the breath of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing waters stood up like a hill, the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.

But You blew with Your breath,and the sea covered them.They sank like leadin the mighty waters.

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

the food at his table, his servants’ residence, his attendants’ service and their attire, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he offered at the Lord’s temple, it took her breath away.

And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, "O Lord, my God, please let this boy's breath return to him."

The Lord answered Elijah's prayer; the boy's breath returned to him and he lived.

And after the earth-shock a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, the sound of a soft breath.

the food at his table, his servants’ residence, his attendants’ service and their attire, his cupbearers and their attire, and the burnt offerings he offered at the Lord’s temple, it took her breath away.

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

Remember that my life is but a breath.My eye will never again see anything good.

Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

Who did you speak these words to?Whose breath came out of your mouth?

if I have eaten its yield without payment, or I have caused [the] breath of its owners to die,

For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

“With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;You consume as a moth what is precious to him;Surely every man is a mere breath. Selah.

Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;In the balances they go up;They are together lighter than breath.

Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]And their years in sudden terror.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

He sends out his word and melts them; he blows his breath, the water flows.

Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

There is no man who has power and authority over the wind to restrain the wind,Nor does he have authority over the day of death;There is no discharge [from service] during time of war,And evil will not rescue those who [actively seek to] practice it.

I said, “I will climb the palm treeand take hold of its fruit.”May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.

And his {breath} [is] in the fear of Yahweh. And he shall judge not by his eyesight, and he shall rebuke not by {what he hears with} his ears.

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

For You have been a stronghold for the poor,a stronghold for the needy person in his distress,a refuge from the rain, a shade from the heat.When the breath of the violentis like rain against a wall,

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

The grass withers, the flowers fadewhen the breath of the Lord blows on them;indeed, the people are grass.

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

When you cry out,let your collection of idols deliver you!The wind will carry all of them off,a breath will take them away.But whoever takes refuge in Mewill inherit the landand possess My holy mountain.

For I will not accuse you forever,and I will not always be angry;for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,even the breath of man, which I have made.

So people will fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glories from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a pent-up stream that the breath of the LORD drives along.

I hear a cry like a woman in labor,a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,stretching out her hands:Woe is me, for my life is wearybecause of the murderers!

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found."

The mother of seven grew faint;she breathed her last breath.Her sun set while it was still day;she was ashamed and humiliated.The rest of them I will give over to the swordin the presence of their enemies.”This is the Lord’s declaration.

So King Zedekiah made a secret promise to Jeremiah and sealed it with an oath. He promised, "As surely as the Lord lives who has given us life and breath, I promise you this: I will not kill you or hand you over to those men who want to kill you."

Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.

Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

I will place my breath in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the Lord -- I have spoken and I will act, declares the Lord.'"

But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
נתק 
Nathaq 
Usage: 27

פּרח 
Parach 
Usage: 37

שׁבר 
Shabar 
Usage: 148

λύω 
Luo 
Usage: 28

דּכא 
Daka' 
Usage: 18

הלם 
Halam 
Usage: 9

חתת 
Chathath 
Usage: 48

נפץ 
Naphats 
Usage: 22

נתץ 
Nathats 
Usage: 42

ערף 
`araph 
Usage: 5

פּצח 
Patsach 
Usage: 8

פּרק 
Paraq 
Usage: 10

פּרר 
Parar 
Usage: 51

ῥήγνυμι ῥήσσω 
Rhegnumi 
Usage: 3

συντρίβω 
suntribo 
Usage: 6

אור 
'owr 
Usage: 42

בּדק 
Bedeq 
Usage: 10

בּקיע 
B@qiya` 
Usage: 2

בּקע 
Baqa` 
cleave , ...up , divide , rent , ... out , break through , rend , breach , asunder , hatch , brake , burst , cleft , break forth , pieces , tare , tear , win
Usage: 51

גּרם 
Garam 
Usage: 3

גּרס 
Garac 
Usage: 2

דּד 
Dad 
Usage: 4

דּישׁ דּושׁ דּוּשׁ 
Duwsh 
Usage: 14

דּכה 
Dakah 
Usage: 5

דּקק 
D@qaq (Aramaic) 
Usage: 9

המם 
Hamam 
Usage: 13

חדי 
Chadiy (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

חזה 
Chazeh 
Usage: 13

חלל 
Chalal 
Usage: 142

חמץ 
Chametz 
Usage: 13

חשׁן 
Choshen 
Usage: 25

טפח 
Tephach 
Usage: 3

טפח 
Tophach 
Usage: 6

כּף 
Kaph 
Usage: 192

כּתת 
Kathath 
Usage: 17

לחם 
Lechem 
Usage: 298

מדרך 
Midrak 
Usage: 1

מחתּרת 
Machtereth 
Usage: 2

מצּה 
Matstsah 
Usage: 53

מרחב 
merchab 
Usage: 6

משׁבּר 
Mishber 
Usage: 3

נאף 
Na'aph 
Usage: 31

נוּא 
Nuw' 
Usage: 8

ניר 
Niyr 
break up
Usage: 2

נפח 
Naphach 
Usage: 12

נשׁמא 
Nishma' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

נשׁמה 
N@shamah 
Usage: 24

עבט 
`abat 
Usage: 6

עטין 
`atiyn 
Usage: 1

עלה 
`alah 
up , offer , come , bring , ascend , go , chew , offering , light , increase , burn , depart , put , spring , raised , arose , break , exalted ,
Usage: 890

ערץ 
`arats 
Usage: 15

פּוּח 
Puwach 
Usage: 14

פּוּץ 
Puwts 
Usage: 67

פּרץ 
Parats 
Usage: 49

פּרץ 
Perets 
Usage: 20

פּרק 
P@raq (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

פּרשׂ 
Paras 
Usage: 68

פּתח 
Pathach 
Usage: 143

פּתי 
P@thay (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

צלח צלח 
Tsalach 
Usage: 66

קוּר 
Quwr 
Usage: 5

רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

רוחה 
R@vachah 
Usage: 2

רחב 
Rachab 
Usage: 2

רחב 
Rochab 
Usage: 101

רסיס 
Raciyc 
Usage: 2

רעע 
Ra`a` 
Usage: 98

רעע 
R@`a` (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

רצץ 
Ratsats 
Usage: 19

שׁבר שׁבר 
Sheber 
Usage: 44

שׁברון 
Shibrown 
Usage: 2

שׁד שׁד 
Shad 
Usage: 24

שׂדד 
Sadad 
Usage: 3

שׁוּף 
Shuwph 
Usage: 4

שׁרינה שׁריה שׁרין שׁריון 
Shiryown 
Usage: 9

תּנוּאה 
T@nuw'ah 
Usage: 2

ἄζυμος 
Azumos 
Usage: 9

ἄρτος 
Artos 
Usage: 61

ἀσύνθετος 
Asunthetos 
Usage: 1

αὐγή 
Auge 
break of day
Usage: 1

διαῤῥήσσω 
Diarrhesso 
Usage: 5

διορύσσω 
Diorusso 
Usage: 0

ἐκκλάω 
Ekklao 
Usage: 3

ἐμπνέω 
Empneo 
Usage: 1

ἐμφυσάω 
Emphusao 
breathe on
Usage: 1

ἐξορύσσω 
Exorusso 
Usage: 2

θώραξ 
Thorax 
Usage: 5

κατάγνυμι 
Katagnumi 
Usage: 4

κατακλάω 
Kataklao 
Usage: 2

κλάσις 
Klasis 
Usage: 2

κλάω 
Klao 
Usage: 13

παράβασις 
Parabasis 
Usage: 7

παραβάτης 
Parabates 
Usage: 5

πλάτος 
Platos 
Usage: 4

πνοή 
Pnoe 
Usage: 2

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