Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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Breath
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Acts 17:25
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
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11 occurrences in 11 verses.
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רוּחַ
rûwach · roo'-akh
27 times translated as this KJV form377 total Strong's occurrences
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
Strong's KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, × cool, courage, mind, × quarter, × side, spirit(-ual), tempest, × vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).
Strong's first: Genesis 6:17Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:19
Open full H7307 profile →נְשָׁמָה
nᵉshâmâh · nesh-aw-maw'
12 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal
Strong's KJV usage: blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 2:7Strong's last: Daniel 10:17
Open full H5397 profile →πνοή
pnoḗ · pno-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
respiration, a breeze
Strong's KJV usage: :--breath, wind.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 17:25Strong's last: Acts 17:25
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nephesh · neh'-fesh
1 times translated as this KJV form738 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Strong's KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.
Strong's first: Job 41:21Strong's last: Job 41:21
Open full H5315 profile →נִשְׁמָא
nishmâʼ · nish-maw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
vital breath
Strong's KJV usage: breath.
Strong's first: Daniel 5:23Strong's last: Daniel 5:23
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H7307
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
H7307
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.
H7307
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.
H7307
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.
H7307
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.
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breath
BREATH, noun breth.
1. The air inhaled and expelled in the respiration of animals.
2. Life.
No man has more contempt than I of breath
3. The state or power of breathing freely; opposed to a state of exhaustion from violent action; as, I am out of breath; I am scarce in breath
4. Respite; pause; time to breathe; as, let me take breath; give me some breath
5. Breeze; aid in gentle motion.
Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea,
When not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface.
6. A single respiration; as, he swears at every breath
7. An instant; the time of a single respiration; a single act.
He smiles and he frowns in a breath
8. A word.
A breath can make them, as a breath has made.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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