התנפח

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Hebrew[edit]

Root
נ־פ־ח (n-p-ḥ)

Verb[edit]

הִתְנַפֵּחַ (hitnapéakh) third-singular masculine past (hitpa'el construction)

  1. to become inflated, to swell
    • 2019, 13:37 from the start, in Our Boys, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Simon (Shlomi Elkabetz):
      ישך פה בלון שמתנפח ומתנפח, תקווה, תקווה, תקווה.
      It's a balloon that keeps getting bigger, hope, hope, hope.
      (literally, “You have a balloon here that swells and swells, hope, hope, hope.”)

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