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נָשַׁב nâshab — to blow
pronounced naw-shab' · Strong's H5380 · 3 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 2 stems: Hiph'il, Qal (Pa'al)
Translated in the KJV as blow, drive away.
a primitive root; to blow; by implication, to disperse.
nâshab in each stem
Hiph'il 2×
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
וַיַּשֵּׁ֥בGen 15:11Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular
And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. (KJV)
יַשֵּׁ֥בPs 147:18Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. (KJV)
Qal (Pa'al) 1×
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
נָ֣שְׁבָהIsa 40:7Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. (KJV)
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›
In the app, tap any Hebrew verb while reading: its root, stem and form are named, the letters of the word itself are coloured to show which is which, and the stem's meaning is put in plain English. nâshab in the lexicon ›
Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.
