Word Summary
psychō: to breathe, blow, to make cool
Original Word: ψύχωTransliteration: psychō
Phonetic Spelling: (psoo'-kho)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to breathe, blow, to make cool
Meaning: to breathe, blow, to make cool
Strong's Concordance
grow cold
A primary verb; to breathe (voluntarily but gently, thus differing on the one hand from pneo, which denotes properly a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of aer, which refers properly to an inanimate breeze), i.e. (by implication, of reduction of temperature by evaporation) to chill (figuratively) -- wax cold.
see GREEK pneo
see GREEK aer
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5594: ψύχωψύχω: 2 future passive,
ψυγήσομαι (cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 318;
Moeris, Piers. edition, p. 421, under the word); from
Homer down;
to breathe, blow, cool by blowing; passive,
to be made or to grow cool or cold: tropically, of waning love,
Matthew 24:12.