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נפח   vb. a/u(a)  to blow


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  to blow  JLAtg, Gal, PTA, CPA, Syr, JBA, LJLA.  TgO Gen2:7 : וֻנפַח בְאַפוֹהִי נִשמְתָא דְחַיֵי  He blew into his face! the soul of life.  TN Gen2:7 : ונפח בנחירוי נשמ׳ דחיין.  PJ Gen2:7 : ונפח בנחירוהי נשמתא דחיי.

  to heat by blowing on fire  JLAtg, LJLA.  TgJ Is44:12 : נַפָחָא מִבַרזְלָא חְצִינָא עָבֵיד וְנָפַח נוּר בְשִיחוֹרִין  the smith makes an axe from iron and heats up the fire with embers.  TgJob41:12 : היך דודא נפיח דעביד כיפא  like a heated pot made of stone.

  to swell up, become inflated  Qumran, JLAtg, JPAEpig, Gal, Syr, LJLA.  11QtgJob 29.8=37:18 : ٠٠ ת]נפח ערפ֗לא  [=? תַּרְקִיעַ עִמּוֹ לִשְׁחָקִים] .  TgO Num5:27 .  PJ Num5:27 : ותנפח כריסא  her! belly will swell up.


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  to inflate, make swell  Gal, PTA, Syr, BabMBK, LJLA.  TN Num5:22 : למנפחה מעיך.  PJ Num5:22 : למנפחא כריסן ולמסייא ירכונין.


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  + רוח‏, נפש‏ : to cause distress  JLAtg, PTA, LJLA.  TgO Lev26:16 : מְחַשכָן עֵינִין וֻמַפְחָן נְפַש.  TgJ 1Sam2:33 : לְחַשָכָא יָת עֵינָך וֻלאַפָחָא יָת נַפשָך.  TN Gen26:35 : והוון סורבנין ומפחן רוח  they were rebellious and stressful.  TgJob31:39 : ונפשא דמרה אפחית  or did I cause its mistress distress.

  to inflate  JLAtg, Sam.  TgO Num5:22 : לְאַפָחָא מְעִין.


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to be blown b_ into  Sam, Syr, LJLA.

  to swell up  PTA, LJLA.  TN Num5:27 : ויתנפח כרסה  her belly will swell up.  TgQoh12:5 : ויתנפחון איסתוורי ריגלך  the ankles of your feet will swell up.


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  to be made to swell  LJLA.  TgJob19:26 : ומן בתר דאתפח משכי  after my skin was made to swell up †. to become wide open (?)  JLAtg.  TgJ Is58:10 : וְתִתַפַח קְֹדָם כָפְנָא נַפשָך  let your soul (appetite?) be wide open before the starving one [or possibly a negative action, i.e. "your appetite consumes everything" following upon the previous verse] †.


  
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 355a; DJBA: 760a; Jastrow: 922; Levy Ch-W: 2:119; Tal Sam: 536; Cook,Qumran: 158;

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Derivatives:

mpḥ n.m. #2   coal
mpḥ n.m. #3   bloating (of starvation)
mpḥh n.f.   exhaling; despair
npwḥ, npwḥˀ (nāp̄ōḥ, nāp̄ōḥā) nom.ag.   bellows; blower
npwḥ (nippūḥ) v.n.D #2   puffing up
npḥ, npḥˀ (nappāḥ, nappāḥā) n.m.   smith
npyḥ (np̄īḥ) adj.   inflated

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