Bible Dictionary: Pant

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

2. (v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

3. (v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.

4. (v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

5. (v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.

6. (v. t.) To long for; to be eager after.

7. (n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

8. (n.) A violent palpitation of the heart.

Strong's Hebrew

7602a. shaaph -- to gasp, pant, pant after, long for
... 7602, 7602a. shaaph. 7602b . to gasp, pant, pant after, long for.
Transliteration: shaaph Short Definition: pant. Word Origin a prim. ...
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7602. sha'aph -- to gasp, pant, pant after, long for
sha'aph. 7601, 7602. sha'aph. 7602a . to gasp, pant, pant after, long for.
Transliteration: sha'aph Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-af') Short Definition: pant. ...
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5395. nasham -- to pant
... nasham. 5396 . to pant. Transliteration: nasham Phonetic Spelling: (naw-sham')
Short Definition: gasp. ... root Definition to pant NASB Word Usage gasp (1). destroy ...
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6165. arag -- to long for
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to long for NASB Word Usage pant (1), pants
(2). cry, pant. A primitive root; to long for -- cry, pant. 6164, 6165. ...
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5503. sachar -- to go around or about, travel about
... go about, merchantman, occupy with, pant, trade, traffic. A primitive root;
to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively ...
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205. aven -- trouble, sorrow, wickedness
... From an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself,
usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble. ...
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7602b. shaaph -- to crush, trample upon
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to crush, trample upon NASB Word Usage crushed
(1), pant (1), trample (1), trampled (2), tramples (1). 7602a, 7602b. ...
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8582. taah -- to err
... ie Reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both -- (cause to)
go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make ...
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Library

Do You Know Him?
... Well, but" they would say, "is it not enough for you that you are delivered from
the lion?" "Nay," say you, "it is for that very reason that I pant to know him ...
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The Bed and Its Covering
... I ask for immortality, I have it here. What do I pant for? I pant for ceaseless,
boundless bliss, I have it here. I pant to be God's child, I have it here. ...
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The Spiced Wine of My Pomegranate;
... Thirst makes the heart pant for the waterbrooks, and pain reminds man of the
physician. ... Pant after more of Jesus. Be covetous after Him. ...
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Wesley's Hymns Reconsidered
... the last line of this verse and the first line of the next verse are tied together
by a treble repetition: a repetition of these three words: eager, ask, pant. ...
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Micah's Message for To-Day
... Doth not the hart pant for the water-brooks? Do thou pant for them; they flow
in the valley of humiliation. The Lord bring us all there! ...
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Satan's Devices
... But here is another snare laid for our feet: While we earnestly pant for that part
of the promise which is to be accomplished here, "for the glorious liberty ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 42 satans devices.htm

Christ Lifted Up
... accomplished. "But," he said, "now I pant for my cross, for it is the topstone
of my labor. ... unity! there are some of us who truly pant after it. ...
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The Doctrines of Salvation A. Repentance. B. Faith. C. ...
... The Hebrew equivalent is even stronger, and means to pant, to sigh, to moan. So
the publican "beat upon his breast," indicating sorrow of heart. ...
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On Mr. Mccabe and a Divine Frivolity
... Will it lose itself in quagmires of sensuality down this new path, and pant and
toil through years of civic and industrial anarchy, only to learn it had lost ...
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The Battle of Life
... Yet British soldiers pressed forward then to the conflict nor did they pant for
fortune, what they did seek was a career, with some opportunity of ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 62 1916/the battle of life.htm

Thesaurus

Pant (8 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Pant (8 Occurrences). ... Now I will cry out like a travailing
woman. I will both gasp and pant. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Gasp (5 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration;
to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently. ...
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Repentance (28 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. REPENTANCE. re-pen'-tans: I. OLD TESTAMENT TERMS
1. To Repent-"to Pant," "to Sigh" 2. To Repent-"to Turn" or "Return" II. ...
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Panting (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pant. Multi-Version Concordance
Panting (5 Occurrences). Psalms 38:10 My heart 'is ...
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Pans (19 Occurrences)

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Vegetation (18 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Jeremiah 14:6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for
air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. (See NAS). ...
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Jackals (20 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 14:6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air
like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. ...
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Gasping (2 Occurrences)
... 42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself:
now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together. ...
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Travailing (16 Occurrences)
... I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing
woman. I will both gasp and pant. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT). ...
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Travaileth (9 Occurrences)
... 42:14 Long time have I holden my peace; I have been still, I have restrained myself:
I will cry like a woman that travaileth; I will blow and pant at once. ...
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Bible Concordance

Pant (8 Occurrences)

Job 5:5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
(See RSV NIV)

Psalms 42:1 For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Psalms 119:131 I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 42:14 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 14:6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Joel 1:20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS NIV)

Amos 2:7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Amos 8:4 Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
(DBY)

Subtopics

Pant

Related Terms

Gasp (5 Occurrences)

Repentance (28 Occurrences)

Panting (5 Occurrences)

Pans (19 Occurrences)

Vegetation (18 Occurrences)

Jackals (20 Occurrences)

Gasping (2 Occurrences)

Travailing (16 Occurrences)