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Words
אַף H639
- Home gloss
- nose; dual nostrils
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- nostrils
- Note
- Concrete over abstract: "the burning of his nose" for anger (guide §3.6). The dual אַפַּיִם is the two nostrils, and in bowing the face (19:1)
- Rulings
- 39
Occurrences (3)
- 2:7 and Elohim shaped the human, dust from the ground, and blew into his nostrils breath of life; and the human became a living soul.
- 3:19 In the sweat of your nostrils you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground, for from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return."
- 7:22 Everything that had the breath of a spirit of life in its nostrils, of all that was on the parched, died.