G1720

ἐμφυσάω

emphusaōG:V

to breathe into

ἐμ-φυσάω, -ῶ (φυσάω, to blow), [in LXX for נָפַח, etc. ;] to breathe into (cf. Gen.2:7, Wis.15:11, a1.), breathe upon: Jhn.20:22.† (AS)

The KJV translates G1720 in the following manner:

on (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

ἐμφυσάω — emphysáō

ἐμφυσάω, ἐμφύσω (see ἐν, III. 3): 1 aorist ἐνεφύσησα; to blow or breathe on: τινα, Joh 20:22, where Jesus, after the manner of the Hebrew prophets, expresses by the symbolic act of breathing upon the apostles the communication of the Holy Spirit to them — having in view the primary meaning of the words רוּחַ and πνεῦμα (cf. e. g. Eze 37:5). (the Sept.; Dioscorides (?), Aretaeus (?), Geoponica, others; (to inflate, Aristotle, others).)

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