Breath
נִשְׁמָאStrong’s H5396nishma (nish-ma)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nishma is the Aramaic word usually translated “breath your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:”
Meaning
- Breath, spirit
How it's translated
- breath your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
נִשְׁמָא nishma · breath
breath, spirit Aramaic of ne.sha.mah (נְשָׁמָה "breath" H5397)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “breath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BREATH, noun
breth.
- The air inhaled and expelled in the respiration of animals.
- Life.
- The state or power of breathing freely; opposed to a state of exhaustion from violent action; as, I am out of breath; I am scarce in breath
- Respite; pause; time to breathe; as, let me take breath; give me some breath
All definitions
- Breeze; aid in gentle motion.
- A single respiration; as, he swears at every breath
- An instant; the time of a single respiration; a single act.
- A word.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.