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title: יָפַח — breathe · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָפַח (3306), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: breathe. BDB 1906: vb. breathe, puff. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָפַח

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«יָפַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **breathe** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3306 · **BDB:** יָפַח

### Glosses

she.is.gasping.for.breath (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

breathe [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3306/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. breathe, puff [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3306/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. breathe, puff (by-form of פּוּחַ, q.v.; see BaNB 189; cf. Talm יפח breath)—only Impf. 3 fs. תִּתְיַפֵּחַ Je 4:31 she gaspeth for breath.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָפַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3306/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 4:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.31/)

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כִּי֩ ק֨וֹל כְּחוֹלָ֜ה שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי צָרָה֙ כְּמַבְכִּירָ֔ה ק֧וֹל בַּת־צִיּ֛וֹן תִּתְיַפֵּ֖חַ תְּפָרֵ֣שׂ כַּפֶּ֑יהָ אֽוֹי־נָ֣א לִ֔י כִּֽי־עָיְפָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י לְהֹרְגִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) a.sound like a.sick.\[woman\] I.have.heard distress like a.\[woman\].bearing.a.first.child the.sound of.the.daughter of.Zion she.is.gasping.for.breath she.is.spreading.out palms her woe! please to me (dm) it.is.weary self my to murderers

*JPS 1917:* For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands: 'Woe is me, now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.'

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