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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #1720 - ἐμφυσάω

Transliteration

emphysáō

Phonetics

em-foo-sah'-o

Origin

from (G1722) and phusao (to puff) [cf (G5453)]

Parts of Speech

verb

TDNT

2:536,232

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to blow or breathe upon

This word used only once by the LXX translators in Gen 2:7 where Godbreathed on Adam and he became a living soul. Just as the originalcreation was completed by an act of God, so to the new creation wascompleted by an act from the Head of the new creation. (AWP Jo 20:

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 4058 ‑ מָדַד (maw‑dad'); 5301 ‑ נָפַח (naw‑fakh'); 6315 ‑ פּוּחַ (poo'‑akh); 6327 ‑ פָּצַץ (poots);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (1)

John 1

BSB (1)

John 1

CSB (1)

John 1

ESV (1)

John 1

KJV (1)

John 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (2)

John 2

N95 (1)

John 1

NAS (2)

John 1

NLT (1)

John 2

WEB (1)

John 1

YLT (1)

John 1

ASV (1)

he breathed on 1

BSB (1)

he breathed on them 1

CSB (1)

on 1

ESV (1)

breathed on 1

KJV (1)

on 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (2)

breathed 1

on 1

N95 (1)

breathed 1

NAS (2)

breathed 1

on 1

NLT (1)

on 1

WEB (1)

he breathed on 1

YLT (1)

he breathed on 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

V-AAI-3S 1

ANT

V-AAI-3S 1

BEZ

V-AAI-3S 1

BGB

V-AAI-3S 1

BMT

V-AAI-3S 1

BYZ

V-AAI-3S 1

ELZ

V-AAI-3S 1

NA26

V-3AAIS 1

SBL

V-AAI-3S 1

SCV

V-AAI-3S 1

STV

V-AAI-3S 1

TIS

V-AAI-3S 1

TRG

V-AAI-3S 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἐμφῡσ-άω,

I blow in, ἐς τὰς ῥῖνας Aret. CA 1.2, cf. POxy. 1088.37; αὐλητρὶς ἐνεφύσησε breathed into the flute, Ar. V. 1219; οἴνῳ ἐ. Hippiatr. 11.

II breathe upon, τινί, εἴς τινα, LXX Job 4:21, Ezekiel 37:9, cf. John 20:22.

III blow up, inflate, τὸ μὲν [ τῆς τροφῆς ] ἐμφυσᾶν, τὸ δὲ σαρκοῦν Arist. HA 603b30; ἐ. τὰς φλέβας Id. Pr. 881b14: — Pass., to be inflated or, generally, swollen, Hp. Coac. 154, Arist. HA 524a17, al.: metaph., τῇ κολακείᾳ ἐμφυσώμενος Clearch. 25.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἐμφυσάω, ἐμφύσω (see ἐν, III. 3): 1 aorist ἐνεφύσησα; to blow or breathe on: τινα, John 20:22, where Jesus, after the manner of the Hebrew prophets, expresses by the symbolic act of breathing upon the apostles the communication of the Holy Spirit to them — having in view the primary meaning of the words רוּחַ and πνεῦμα (cf. e. g. Ezekiel 37:5). (the Sept.; Dioscorides (?), Aretaeus (?), Geoponica, others; (to inflate, Aristotle, others).)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

ἐμ -φυσάω , -ῶ

(< φυσάω , to blow),

[in LXX for H5301, etc.;]

to breathe into (cf. Genesis 2:7, Wisdom of Solomon 15:11, a1.), breathe upon: John 20:22.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

The use of this word in John 20:22, the only place where it occurs in the NT, though it is found eleven times in the LXX, is well illustrated by P Leid Wxvii. 15 (ii/iii A.D.) ὁ ἐνφυσήσας πνεῦμα ἀνθρώποις εἰς ζωήν. For a new literary reference see the medical receipt to stop sneezing, P Oxy VIII. 1088.25 (early i/A.D.) ἑλλεβόρου λευκοῦ προσφατώτερον τρίψας ἐμφύσας (l. ἐμφύσα) εἰς τοὺς μυκτῆρας, ";pound fresh some white hellebore and blow it into the nostrils"; (Ed.).

List of Word Forms

εμφύσησον εμφυσήσω εμφυσών ενεφύσησε ενεφυσησεν ενεφύσησεν ἐνεφύσησεν enephusesen enephusēsen enephysesen enephysēsen enephýsesen enephýsēsen