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Exhalation

מַפָּחStrong’s H4646

mappach (map-pach)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Mappach is the Hebrew word usually translated “gasp of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.”
Job 11:20 KJV
Meaning
  1. Breathing out, expiring, exhaling (of life)
How it's translated
  • a gasp of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Job 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    מַפָּח mappach · exhalation

    breathing out, expiring, exhaling (of life)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    EXHALA'TION, noun

    [Latin exhalatio. See Exhale.]

    1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth fluids in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
    2. That which is exhaled; that which is emitted, or which rises in the form of vapor; fume or steam; effluvia.

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

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.