Brown-Driver-Briggs
[
נשׁם]
verb pant (Late Hebrew in nouns
נְשִׁימָה,
נְשָׁמָה,
ᵑ7 נִשְׁמָא,
נִשְׁמְתָא; late Aramaic Ithpe`el; Syriac
breathe, blow; Arabic
gently breathe (of wind), etc.; see
seek a thing with labour and perseverance (Lane
3032);
a soul, Lane
ib.); —
pant, of the deep and strong breathing of a woman in travail;
Qal Imperfect1singular אֶשֹּׁם Isaiah 42:14.
[נִשְׁמָה] noun feminine breath (see Biblical Hebrew, √ נשׁם); — suffix נִשְׁמְתָח Daniel 5:23, i.e. breath of life.