Dictionaries :: Breath, Breathe

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Breath, Breathe:

akin to pneo, "to blow," lit., "a blowing," signifies

(a) "breath, the breath of life," Act 17:25;

(b) "wind," Act 2:2.
See WIND.

Breath, Breathe:

"spirit," also denotes "breath," Rev 11:11; 13:15, RV. In 2Th 2:8, the AV has "spirit" for RV, "breath."
See GHOST, LIFE, SPIRIT, WIND.

Breath, Breathe:

lit., "to breathe in, or on," is used in Act 9:1, indicating that threatening and slaughter were, so to speak, the elements from which Saul drew and expelled his breath.

Breath, Breathe:

"to breathe upon," is used of the symbolic act of the Lord Jesus in breathing upon His Apostles the communication of the Holy Spirit, Jhn 20:22.