STRONGS G1709:
ἐμπνέω [T WH
ἐν-, see
ἐν, III. 3];
1. to breathe in or
on [from Homer down].
2. to inhale, (Aeschylus, Plato, others); with partitive genitive,
ἀπειλῆς κ.
φόνου, threatening and slaughter were so to speak the element from which he drew his breath,
Acts 9:1; see Meyer at the passage, cf. Winers Grammar § 30, 9c.; [Buttmann, 167 (146)];
ἐμπνέον ζωῆς,
Sept. Joshua 10:40.
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