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title: נָשַׁף — blow · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָשַׁף (5398), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: blow. BDB 1906: vb. blow. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָשַׁף

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«נָשַׁף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **blow** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 5398 · **BDB:** נָשַׁף

### Glosses

he.blows (1); you.blew (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

blow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5398/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. blow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5398/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. blow (NH = BH; Chr-Pal.-Aramaic ܢܫܦ SchwallyIdiot. 58; Arabic نَسَفَ (vulg.) id. (Dozy ii. 667; on usually meaning cf. WetzstZPV xiv. 7); ‖ form of נשׁב, cf. Jen ZA iv (1889), 268);— Pf. 3 ms. נ׳ בָּהֶם Is 40:24 he hath blown upon them (of י׳ under fig. of wind); 2 ms. נָשַׁפְתָּ בְרוּחֲךָ Ex 15:10 (song).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָשַׁף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5398/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 15:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.10/)

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נָשַׁ֥פְתָּ בְרוּחֲךָ֖ כִּסָּ֣מוֹ יָ֑ם צָֽלֲלוּ֙ כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶת בְּמַ֖יִם אַדִּירִֽים׃

*Word for word:* you.blew with breath your it covered.them \[the\].sea they.sank like (the) lead in.\[the\] waters mighty

*JPS 1917:* Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

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[Isaiah 40:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.24/)

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אַ֣ף בַּל־נִטָּ֗עוּ אַ֚ף בַּל־זֹרָ֔עוּ אַ֛ף בַּל־שֹׁרֵ֥שׁ בָּאָ֖רֶץ גִּזְעָ֑ם וְגַם־נָשַׁ֤ף בָּהֶם֙ וַיִּבָ֔שׁוּ וּסְעָרָ֖ה כַּקַּ֥שׁ תִּשָּׂאֵֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* even not they.have.been.planted even not they.have.been.sown even not it.has.taken.root in the ground rootstock their and also he.blows on them and they.have.dried.up and a.tempest like (the) chaff it carries.them.off

*JPS 1917:* Scarce are they planted, scarce are they sown, scarce hath their stock taken root in the earth; when He bloweth upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

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