Strong's Concordance empneó: to breathe (on), to inhale Original Word: ἐμπνέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: empneó Phonetic Spelling: (emp-neh'-o) Definition: to breathe (on), to inhale Usage: I breathe, breathe into, inhale. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom en and pneó Definition to breathe (on), to inhale NASB Translation breathing (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1709: ἐμπνέωἐμπνέω (T WH ἐνπνέω, see ἐν, III. 3); 1. to breathe in or on (from Homer down). 2. to inhale (Aeschylus, Plato, others); with partitive genitive, ἀπειλῆς καί φόνου, threatening and slaughter were so to speak the element from which he drew his breath, Acts 9:1; see Meyer at the passage, cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 9c.; (Buttmann, 167 (146)); ἐμπνέον ζωῆς, the Sept. Joshua 10:40. From en and pneo; to inhale, i.e. (figuratively) to be animated by (bent upon) -- breathe. see GREEK en see GREEK pneo |