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Nave Topical Bible
• Breath
Thompson Chain Reference
• Breath
Dictionaries
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Breath of Life
• Breath
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Breathing
King James Dictionary
• Breathing
• Breathed
• Breathe
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Breath
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Breath, Breathe
• Spirit; Breath
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Wilson's Bible Types
• Breath
Webster Dictionary
• Short-Breathed
• Long-Breathed
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Breath; Breathe; Breathing
The Jewish Encyclopedia
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• ܢܦ݂ܰܚ
• ܢܰܦ݂ܫܳܐ
• ܪܽܘܚܳܐ
• ἐκπνέω
• ἐκψύχω
• ἐμπνέω
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• אַף , אַפַּיִם
• גָּוַע
• הֶבֶל
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BREATH, n. 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.