Lexicon psuchó: to breathe, blow, to make cool Original Word: ψύχωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: psuchó Phonetic Spelling: (psoo'-kho) Short Definition: I cool, grow cold Definition: I cool, pass: I grow cold. HELPS word-Studies 5594 psýxō (originally, "to breathe out," cf. J. Thayer) – properly, "to blow, refresh with cool air" (Zod, Dict); (figuratively) "to breathe cool by blowing, to grow cold, 'spiritual energy blighted or chilled by a malign or poisonous wind' " (M. Vincent), used only in Mt 24:12. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. verb Definitionto breathe, blow, to make cool NASB Translationgrow cold (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5594: ψύχωψύχω: 2 future passive, ψυγήσομαι (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 318; Moeris, Piers. edition, p. 421, under the word); from Homer down; to breathe, blow, cool by blowing; passive, to be made or to grow cool or cold: tropically, of waning love, Matthew 24:12.
Strong's grow cold A primary verb; to breathe (voluntarily but gently, thus differing on the one hand from pneo, which denotes properly a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of aer, which refers properly to an inanimate breeze), i.e. (by implication, of reduction of temperature by evaporation) to chill (figuratively) -- wax cold. see GREEK pneo see GREEK aer |
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