Lexical 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 ( |
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