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Job 37:10
“By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
נְשָׁמָהnᵉshâmâh · nesh-aw-maw'
H5397 · Hebrew
H5397 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal
- Derivation
- from H5395 (נָשַׁם);
- KJV renderings
- blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.
- Grammar
- מִ — preposition
- נִּשְׁמַת — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 24 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:7Genesis 7:22Deuteronomy 20:16Joshua 10:40Joshua 11:11
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נְשָׁמָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.