pnoas

Strong’sG4157

breath, wind

stem pno-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

πνοή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< πνέω), [in LXX chiefly for נְשָׁמָה;]

1. a blowing, blast, wind: Ac 2:2.

2. a breathing, breath: Ac 17:25 (Ge 2:7, al.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4157 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpno-ay'

respiration, a breeze

Fromfrom G4154;

King Jamesbreath, wind.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

πνοή, ῆς, ἡ,
Epic dialect πνοιή, always in Refs 8th c.BC+; Doric dialect πνοά (see. below); Lyric poetry πνοιά Refs 5th c.BC+: (πνέω):— blowing, blast, πνοιαὶ παντοίων ἀνέμων Refs 8th c.BC+:absolutely, blast, breeze, Refs, etc.; ὀλίγη π. a light breeze, Refs 2nd c.AD+; π. βιαία a stiff breeze,Refs 3rd c.AD+; especially to denote excessive swiftness, ἅμα πνοιῇς ἀνέμοιο along with, i.e.swift as, blasts of wind, Refs 8th c.BC+, ἅμ᾽ ἀνέμων πνοαῖσι βαίη; frequently in Trag., ταχύπτεροι πνοαί Refs 5th c.BC+; blast of bellows, Refs 5th c.BC+
II breathing hard, panting, of horses, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 generally, breath, ἔμπνους μέν εἰμι.. καὶ πνοὰς.. πνέω Refs 5th c.BC+ the breath of Hephaestus, i.e. flame, Refs 8th c.BC+
III vapour, exhalation, σποδὸς προπέμπει πλούτου πνοάς, of a burning city, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV breath of a wind-instrument, Αἰολῇσιν ἐν πνοαῖσιν αὐλῶν Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

breath1×wind1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	pnoas	pnoais
object accusative	pnoan1×πνοὴν	pnoain
direct address vocative	pnoar	pnoair
of, belonging to genitive	pnoau1×πνοῆς	pnoaiu
to, for dative	pnoa	pnoai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

pnostem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

pnoa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

pnoan“breath”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 17:25… tineu, autos dōarōntos pantoi zōan kai pnoan kai teim panteim;… He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

pnoau“wind”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 2:2… ek tou ouranou ēchos hōsper ferorōntau pnoau biaiau kai plērata holon ton oikon …… a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the …