“to breathe (voluntarily but gently, thus differing on the one hand from G4154 (πνέω), which denotes properly a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of G109 (ἀήρ), which refers properly to an inanimate breeze), i.e. (by implication, of reduction of temperature by evaporation) to chill (figuratively)”
Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
to breathe (voluntarily but gently, thus differing on the one hand from G4154 (πνέω), which denotes properly a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of G109 (ἀήρ), which refers properly to an inanimate breeze), i.e. (by implication, of reduction of temperature by evaporation) to chill (figuratively)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
to breathe; to cool; pass. to be cooled; met. of affection, Mt. 24:12*
Translated in KJV as
Etymology
a primary verb;
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