The corpus record

ἐμφῡσ-άω

emphusao

blow in, breathed into, breathe upon

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Where it lives

De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Ezechiel 2 · 0.69/10k
John 1 · 0.65/10k
Regnorum III 1 · 0.52/10k
Genesis 1 · 0.33/10k

What it meant

ἐμφῡσ-άω · emphys-aō — LSJ

blow in, breathed into

blow in, ἐς τὰς ῥῖνας Aret. CA 1.2, cf. POxy. 1088.37; αὐλητρὶς ἐνεφύσησε breathed into the flute, Ar. V. 1219; οἴνῳ ἐ. Hippiatr. 11.

II breathe upon

breathe upon, τινί, εἴς τινα, LXX Jb. 4.21, Ez. 37.9, cf. Ev.Jo. 20.22.

III blow up, inflate, to be inflated, swollen

blow up, inflate, τὸ μὲν [τῆς τροφῆς] ἐμφυσᾶν, τὸ δὲ σαρκοῦν Arist. HA 603b30; ἐ. τὰς φλέβας Id. Pr. 881b14:—Pass., to be inflated or, generally, swollen, Hp. Coac. 154, Arist. HA 524a17, al.: metaph., τῇ κολακείᾳ ἐμφυσώμενος Clearch. 25.

In the wild

ἐνεφύσησεν · enephysēsen Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 894)
ἐμφυσώμενος · emphysōmenos Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 7)
ἐνεφύσησεν · enephysēsen New Testament, John 20.22 (DIORISIS sentence 1098)
ἐμφυσήσω · emphysēsō Septuaginta, Ezechiel 21
ἐμφύσησον · emphysēson Septuaginta, Ezechiel 37
ἐνεφύσησεν · enephysēsen Septuaginta, Genesis 2

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Where it came from

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