πνοή
breath
‘breath’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G4157 appears in the Accusative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun πνοη centers on the idea of “breath.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Acts (100%). First canonically at Acts 2:2, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4157 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 2 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Breath 1×, Wind 1×
- American Standard Version: Breath 1×, Wind 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Breath 1×, Wind 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: A 1×, Breath 1×, Wind 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4157 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4157 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4157 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4157 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- breath, breath of life
- wind
Word origin
Derived from πνεω (pnéō) (G4154) — to breathe.
From G4154 ; respiration a breeze : - breath wind.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4157 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πνοὴν pnoḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 17:25 | 1 |
| πνοῆς pnoē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 2:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4157, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πνοη appears 19 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 19 verses in 9 books.
- 19
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 19
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:7 πνοή
- 2 Samuel 22:16 πνοή
- 1 Kings 15:29 πνοή
- Ezra 16:1 πνοή
- Job 26:4 πνοή
- Psalms 150:6 πνοή
- Proverbs 1:23 πνοή
- Isaiah 38:16 πνοή
- Ezekiel 13:13 πνοή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4157) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:7 πνοή Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 7:22 πνοή All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
- 2 Samuel 22:16 πνοή Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
- 1 Kings 15:29 πνοή It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
- Ezra 16:1 πνοή
- Job 26:4 πνοή To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
- Job 27:3 πνοή (For the length of my life is still in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
- Job 32:8 πνοή But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
- Job 33:4 πνοή The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
- Job 37:10 πνοή By the breath of God, ice is given, And the breadth of the waters is frozen.
- Psalms 150:6 πνοή Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!
- Proverbs 1:23 πνοή Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
- Proverbs 11:13 πνοή One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, But one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
- Proverbs 20:18 πνοή Plans are established by advice; By wise guidance you wage war!
- Proverbs 24:12 πνοή If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" Doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
- Isaiah 38:16 πνοή Lord, by these things men live; Wholly therein is the life of my spirit: You restore me, and cause me to live.
- Isaiah 42:5 πνοή Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk therein:
- Isaiah 57:16 πνοή For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.
- Ezekiel 13:13 πνοή Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4157) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
