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Lexicon :: Strong's G1720 - emphysaō

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ἐμφυσάω
Transliteration
emphysaō (Key)
Pronunciation
em-foo-sah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἐν (G1722) and phusao (to puff) [cf φύω (G5453)]
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
6x in 4 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:536,232

Strong’s Definitions

ἐμφυσάω emphysáō, em-foo-sah'-o; from G1722 and φυσάω physáō (to puff) (compare G5453); to blow at or on:—breathe on.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G1720 in the following manner: breathe on (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G1720 in the following manner: breathe on (1x).

  1. to blow or breathe upon

    The Greek word here used is employed nowhere else in the New Testament, but is the very one used by the Septuagint translators of Gen 2:7: 'And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.' There, man's original creation was completed by this act of God; who, then, can fail to see that here in John 20, on the day of the Saviour's resurrection, the new creation had begun, begun by the Head of the new creation, the last Adam acting as 'a quickening spirit' (1Cr 15:45)!" (Arthur W. Pink, Exposition of the Gospel of John, p. 1100).
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐμφυσάω emphysáō, em-foo-sah'-o; from G1722 and φυσάω physáō (to puff) (compare G5453); to blow at or on:—breathe on.
STRONGS G1720:
ἐμφυσάω, -ῶ [see ἐν, III. 3]: 1 aorist ἐνεφύσησα; to blow or breathe on: τινά, 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]. (Sept.; Dioscorides, Aretaeus, Geoponica, others; [to inflate, Aristotle, others].)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Ezekiel
37:5
John
20:22

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Strong's Number G1720 matches the Greek ἐμφυσάω (emphysaō),
which occurs 1 times in 1 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:22 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
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