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To blow

נָשַׁבStrong’s H5380

nashav (na-shav)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Nashav is the Hebrew word usually translated “drove away”, “makes blow” and “it blows”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.”
Genesis 15:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. To blow(Qal) to blow · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
  • and he drove away 1
  • he makes blow 1
  • it blows 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1
  • Psalms 1
  • Isaiah 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

נָשַׁב nashav · to blow

1) to blow 1a) (Qal) to blow 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to blow 1b2) to disperse, to drive away

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

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

  1. The act of striking; more generally the stroke; a violent application of the hand, fist, or an instrument to an object.
  2. The fatal stroke; a stroke that kills; hence, death.
  3. 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.
  4. A sudden calamity; a sudden or severe evil.
All definitions and other forms of “blow”
  1. A single act; a sudden event; as, to gain or lose a province at a blow or by one blow
  2. 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.]

  1. To make a current of air; to move as air; as, the wind blows.
  2. To pant; to puff; to breathe hard or quick.
  3. To breathe; as, to blow hot and cold.
  4. To sound with being blown, as a horn or trumpet.
  5. 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.

  1. To drive by a current of air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
  2. To breathe upon, for the purpose of warming; as, to blow the fingers in a cold day.
  3. To sound a wind instrument; as, blow the trumpet.
  4. To spread by report.
  5. To deposit eggs, as flies.
  6. To form bubbles by blowing.
  7. To swell and inflate, as veal; a practice of butchers.
  8. To form glass into a particular shape by the breath, as in glass manufactories.
  9. To melt tin, after being first burnt to destroy the mundic.
  10. To inflate; to puff up; as, to blow up one with flattery.
  11. To kindle; as, to blow up a contention.
  12. 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.

  1. 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.

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