Strong's Hebrew · H5395

H5395 nâsham

נָשַׁם

naw-sham'

to pant

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nâsham appears once in Scripture, in Isaiah 42:14. In the Doxa app, open that verse, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

properly, to blow away, i.e. destroy

In the King James Version

destroy.

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 1 time in Scripture

Isaiah 42:14

““I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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