Blast
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. i.) To blow; to blow on a trumpet.
(2): (v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
(3): (v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
(4): (v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
(5): (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
(6): (n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
(7): (n.) A violent gust of wind.
(8): (n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.
(9): (n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
(10): (n.) A flatulent disease of sheep.
(11): (n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
(12): (v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din.
(13): (n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.
King James Dictionary [2]
BL'AST, Literally, to strike. To make to wither by some pernicious influence, as too much heat or moisture, or other destructive cause or to check growth and prevent from coming to maturity and producing fruit to blight, as trees or plants.
1. To affect with some sudden violence,plague, calamity, or destructive influence, which destroys or causes to fail as, to blast pride or hopes. The figurative senses of this verb are taken from the blasting of plants, and all express the idea of checking growth, preventing maturity, impairing, injuring, destroying, or disappointing of the intended effect as, to blast credit, or reputation to blast designs. 2. To confound, or strike with force, by a loud blast or din. 3. To split rocks by an explosion of gun powder.
They did not stop to blast this ore.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
as a noun (in the sense of current of air), is the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of נֵשָׁמָה , Neshamah' ( 2 Samuel 22:16; Psalms 18:15), "breath," as elsewhere, or of רוּחִ , Ru'Ach ( Exodus 15:6; Joshua 6:5; 2 Kings 19:7; Job 4:9; Isaiah 25:4; Isaiah 37:7), " wind" or "spirit," as elsewhere; as a verb, etc. (in the sense of blighting), it represents the Heb. roots שָׁדִ , shadaph', or שָׁדִם , Shadam', always spoken of the blasting of crops ( Deuteronomy 28:22; 1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28; Amos 4:9; Haggai 2:17), especially of grain ( Genesis 41:6; Genesis 41:23; Genesis 41:27), often sudden ( 2 Kings 19:26; Isaiah 37:27), apparently by a hot wind (Hackett, Illustra. Of Script. p. 135).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
(נשׁמה , neshāmāh , רוּח , rūaḥ ):
(1) The blowing of the breath of Yahweh, expressive of the manifestation of God's power in Nature and Providence. "With the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up" ( Exodus 15:8 ), referring to the east wind ( Exodus 14:21; compare 2 Samuel 22:16 and Psalm 18:15 ). "I will send a blast upon him" ( 2 Kings 19:7 the King James Version; the Revised Version (British and American) "put a spirit in him," i.e. "an impulse of fear" (Dummelow in the place cited.); compare Isaiah 37:7 ). "By the blast of his anger are they consumed" ( Job 4:9; compare Isaiah 37:36 ).
(2) The word rūaḥ is used with reference to the tyranny and violence of the wicked ( Isaiah 25:4 ).
(3) The blowing of a wind instrument: "When they make a long blast with the ram's horn" ( Joshua 6:5 ).
