G1709 – empneo – ἐμπνέω – breathe
- Strong’s ID:
- G1709
- Greek Word:
- ἐμπνέω
- Transliteration:
- empneo
- Pronunciation:
- emp-neh’-o
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Usage Count:
- 1
- Search:
- Find “empneo” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G1722 and G4154; to inhale, i.e. (figuratively) to be animated by (bent upon):—breathe.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) to breathe in or on
2) to inhale
2a) threatenings and slaughter were so to speak the element from which he drew his breath
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.