- Original: יפח - Transliteration: Yaphach - Phonetic: yaw-fakh' - Definition: 1. to breathe, breathe hard, puff a. (Hithpael) to gasp for breath - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 891 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; properly to breathe hard that is (by implication) to sigh: - bewail self. Total KJV Occurrences: 1 • herself, 1 Jeremiah 4:31