פּוּחַ pûwach — to puff, i.e. blow with the breath or air
Translated in the KJV as blow, break, puff, bring into a snare, speak, utter.
a primitive root; to puff, i.e. blow with the breath or air; hence, to fan (as a breeze), to utter, to kindle (a fire), to scoff.
pûwach in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 11Imperative 1
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
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 ›