pneō (to blow) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “blew”, “blowing” and “is blowing”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

blew 2
blowing 2
is blowing 1
blows 1
may blow 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Matthew 2
John 2
Luke 1
Acts 1
Revelation 1

5 books in all.

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Matthew 7:27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Luke 12:55And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
John 3:8The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
John 6:18And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
Acts 27:40And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
Revelation 7:1And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

Greek dictionary

πνέω pneō · to blow

πνέω [in LXX: Psa.147:7 (18) (נָשַׁב hi.), Isa.40:24 (נָשַׁף), Sir.43:16, 20, Ep. Je 61, 2Ma.9:7 * ;] to breathe, blow: of the wind, Mat.7:25, 27, Luk.12:55, Jhn.3:8 6:18, Rev.7:1; ηῇ πνεούσῃ (sc. αὔρᾳ), Act.27:40 (cf. ἐκ-, ἐν-, ὑπο-πνέω).† αὔρα, a breeze : τ. πνεούσῇ (sc. αὔρᾳ), Act.27:40.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “blow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BLOW, noun

[This probably is a contracted word, and the primary sense must be, to strike, thrust, push, or throw, that is, to drive. I have not found it in the cognate dialects. If g or other palatal letter is lost, it corresponds in elements with the Latin plaga

The act of striking; more generally the stroke; a violent application of the hand, fist, or an instrument to an object.
The fatal stroke; a stroke that kills; hence, death.
An act of hostility; as, the nation which strikes the first blow Hence, to come to blows, is to engage in combat, whether by individuals, armies, fleets or nations; and when by nations, it is war.
A sudden calamity; a sudden or severe evil.

All definitions and other forms of “blow”

A single act; a sudden event; as, to gain or lose a province at a blow or by one blow
An ovum or egg deposited by a fly, on flesh or other substance, called a fly-blow.

BLOW, verb transitive

preterit tense blew; participle passive blown. [Latin flo, to blow This word probably is from the same root as bloom, blossom, blow a flower.]

To make a current of air; to move as air; as, the wind blows.
To pant; to puff; to breathe hard or quick.
To breathe; as, to blow hot and cold.
To sound with being blown, as a horn or trumpet.
To flower; to blossom; to bloom; as plants.

BLOW, verb transitive

To throw or drive a current of air upon; as, to blow the fire; also, to fan.

To drive by a current of air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
To breathe upon, for the purpose of warming; as, to blow the fingers in a cold day.
To sound a wind instrument; as, blow the trumpet.
To spread by report.
To deposit eggs, as flies.
To form bubbles by blowing.
To swell and inflate, as veal; a practice of butchers.
To form glass into a particular shape by the breath, as in glass manufactories.
To melt tin, after being first burnt to destroy the mundic.
To inflate; to puff up; as, to blow up one with flattery.
To kindle; as, to blow up a contention.
To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by the explosion of gunpowder.

BLOW, noun

A flower; a blossom. This word is in general use in the U. States, and legitimate. In the Tatler, it is used for blossoms in general, as we use blowth.

Among seamen, a gale of wind.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.