Biblica Analytica
H5397 Hebrew

נִשְׁמָא

nish.ma

breath

Lexicon Entry

Definition
breath
Transliteration
nish.ma
Strong's Number
H5397
Occurrences
24

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Strong's
H5397
Lemma
נִשְׁמָא
Transliteration
nish.ma
Definition
breath
Occurrences
24
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Occurrences in Scripture

24 total occurrences across the text

Genesis 2:7

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 7:22

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Deuteronomy 20:16

But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.

Joshua 11:11

They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.

Joshua 11:14

The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

1 Kings 15:29

As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;

1 Kings 17:17

After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

Job 4:9

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

Job 26:4

To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?

Job 27:3

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Job 32:8

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 34:14

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

Job 37:10

By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen.

Psalms 18:15

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

Psalms 150:6

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Isaiah 30:33

For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Isaiah 42:5

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Daniel 10:17

For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me.”