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breath

Meaning of “breath”

Sense 1: Air drawn in or breathed out. Sense 2: The breath by which bodily life is sustained; by extension, bodily life.

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42 occurrences42 verses13 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 2:7

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Job 17:1
MY breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 17:1 · retained source text

¶ My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.

1611 marginal noteOr, my spirit is spent.

Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 19:17 · retained source text

My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the childrens sake of mine owne body.

1611 marginal noteHeb. my belly.

Job 27:3
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 27:3 · retained source text

All the while my breath is in mee, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

1611 marginal noteThat is, the breath which God gaue him.

Job 33:4
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 33:4 · retained source text

The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almightie hath giuen me life.

Job 34:14
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 34:14 · retained source text

If he set his heart vpon man, if he gather vnto himselfe his spirit and his breath;

1611 marginal noteHebr. vpon him.

1611 marginal notePsal. 104.19.

Job 37:10
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 37:10 · retained source text

By the breath of God, frost is giuen: and the breadth of the waters is straitned.

Job 41:21
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 41:21 · retained source text

His breath kindleth coales, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

Psalms 18:15
Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 18:15 · retained source text

Then the chanels of waters were seene, and the foundations of the world were discouered: at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

Psalms 33:6
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 33:6 · retained source text

By the word of the LORD were the heauens made: and all the host of them, by the breath of his mouth.

1611 marginal noteGen. 1.6. & 7.

Psalms 104:29
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 104:29 · retained source text

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled, thou takest away their breath, they die: and returne to their dust.

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