Quick Definition
I breathe into, breathe upon
Strong's Definition
to blow at or on
Derivation: from G1722 (ἐν) and (to puff) (compare G5453 (φύω));
KJV Usage: breathe on
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐμφυσάω, ἐμφύσω (see ἐν, III. 3): 1 aorist ἐνεφύσησα; to blow or breathe on: τινα, Joh_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 ψεΜηΗ and πνεῦμα (cf. e. g. Eze_37:5). (the Sept.; Dioscorides (?), Aretaeus (?), Geoponica, others; (to inflate, Aristotle, others).)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐμφυσάω emphysaō 1x
to blow or breathe into, inflate; in NT to breathe upon, Joh_20:22
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐμ -φυσάω , -ῶ
( < φυσάω , to blow ),
[in LXX for H5301 , etc.;]
to breathe into ( cf. Gen_2:7 , Wis_15:11 , a1.), breathe upon: Joh_20:22 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐμφυσάω [page 209]
The use of this word in Joh_20:22 , the only place where it occurs in the NT, though it is found eleven times in the LXX, is well illustrated by P Leid W xvii. 15 (ii/iii A.D.) ὁ ἐνφυσήσας πνεῦμα ἀνθρώποις εἰς ζωήν . For a new literary reference see the medical receipt to stop sneezing, P Oxy VIII. 1088 .25 (early i/A.D.) ἑλλεβόρου λευκοῦ προσφατώτερον τρίψας ἐμφύσας ( l. ἐμφύσα ) εἰς τοὺς μυκτῆρας , pound fresh some white hellebore and blow it into the nostrils (Ed.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐμφυσάω fut. ήσω [Etym: ἐν] "to blow in: to play the flute", Ar.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐμ-φυσάω, -ῶ
(φυσάω, to blow), [in LXX for נָפַח, etc. ;]
to breathe into (cf. Gen.2:7, Wis.15:11, a1.), breathe upon: Jhn.20:22.†
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