Biblical Hebrew

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Strong Hebrew #3306 - יָפַח yaphach (to breathe)


Original Word:יָפַח
Transliteration:yaphach
Definition:to breathe, puff
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(yaw-fakh')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

bewail self

A primitive root; properly, to breathe hard, i.e. (by implication) to sigh -- bewail self.


Englishman's Concordance

1) to breathe, breathe hard, puff
1a) (Hithpael) to gasp for breath
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 891

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[יָפַח] verbbreathe, puff (by-form of מּוּחַ, q. v.; see BaNB 189; compare Talmud יפחbreath) — only

Hithpa`elImperfect3feminine singular תִּתְיַמֵּחַJeremiah 4:31 she gaspeth for breath.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3306. יָפַח (yaphach) — 1 Occurrence

Jeremiah 4:31
HEB:בַּת־ צִיּ֛וֹן תִּתְיַפֵּ֖חַ תְּפָרֵ֣שׂ כַּפֶּ֑יהָ
NAS: of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching
KJV: of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that] spreadeth
INT: of the daughter of Zion gasping Stretching her hands