- Transliteration: Emphusao

- Phonetic: em-foo-sah'-o

- Definition:

1. to blow or breathe upon This word used only once by the LXX translators in Gen 2:7 where Godbreathed on Adam and he became a living soul. Just as the originalcreation was completed by an act of God, so to the new creation wascompleted by an act from the Head of the new creation. (AWP Jo 20:22)

- Origin: from G1722" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1722 and phusao (to puff) [cf G5453" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5453]

- TDNT entry: 10:56,2

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G1722" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1722 and φυσάω phusaō (to puff; compare G5453" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5453); to blow at or on: - breathe on.