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Breathed on them (ἐνεφύσησεν)
Only here in the New Testament. The act was symbolic, after the manner of the Hebrew prophets. Compare Eze 37:5.
The Holy Ghost
The article is wanting. The gift bestowed was not that of the personal Holy Spirit, but rather an earnest of that gift; an effusion of the Spirit.