King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1720
Transliteration: emphysaō
Phonetic Spelling: (em-foo-sah'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to breathe into or upon
Meaning: to breathe into or upon
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).)
Word Summary
emphysaō: to breathe into or upon
Original Word: ἐμφυσάωTransliteration: emphysaō
Phonetic Spelling: (em-foo-sah'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to breathe into or upon
Meaning: to breathe into or upon
Strong's Concordance
breathe on. From en and phusao (to puff) (compare phuo); to blow at or on -- breathe on.
see GREEK en
see GREEK phuo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1720: ἐμφυσάωἐμφυσάω, 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 (