Strong's #5315: nephesh (pronounced neh'-fesh)
from 5314; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental):--any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ
nephesh
1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
1b) living being
1c) living being (with life in the blood)
1d) the man himself, self, person or individual
1e) seat of the appetites
1f) seat of emotions and passions
1g) activity of mind
1g1) dubious
1h) activity of the will
1h1) dubious
1i) activity of the character
1i1) dubious
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H5314
Usage:
This word is used 753 times:
Isaiah 44:20: "that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie"
Isaiah 46:2: "not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity."
Isaiah 47:14: "them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not"
Isaiah 49:7: "the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant"
Isaiah 51:23: "of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body"
Isaiah 53:10: "him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong"
Isaiah 53:11: "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant"
Isaiah 53:12: "the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered"
Isaiah 55:2: "hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness."
Isaiah 55:3: "and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant"
Isaiah 56:11: " Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds"
Isaiah 58:3: "say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day"
Isaiah 58:5: "a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread"
Isaiah 58:10: "And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise"
Isaiah 58:10: "to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness"
Isaiah 58:11: "shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be"
Isaiah 61:10: "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed"
Isaiah 66:3: "Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations."
Jeremiah 2:24: "to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away?"
Jeremiah 2:34: "in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found"
Jeremiah 3:11: "me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah."
Jeremiah 4:10: "peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul."
Jeremiah 4:19: "hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war."
Jeremiah 4:30: "thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life."
Jeremiah 4:31: "saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers."
Jeremiah 5:9: "the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
Jeremiah 5:29: "things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
Jeremiah 6:8: "Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make"
Jeremiah 6:16: "way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk"
Jeremiah 9:9: "things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
Jeremiah 11:21: "of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name"
Jeremiah 12:7: "I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies."
Jeremiah 13:17: "But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for"
Jeremiah 14:19: "Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why"
Jeremiah 15:1: "and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people:"
Jeremiah 15:9: "seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day:"
Jeremiah 17:21: "saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath"
Jeremiah 18:20: "for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak"
Jeremiah 19:7: "their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcasses will I give to be meat"
Jeremiah 19:9: "wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten"
Jeremiah 20:13: "for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers."
Jeremiah 21:7: "and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword;"
Jeremiah 21:9: "the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey."
Jeremiah 22:25: "And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face"
Jeremiah 22:27: "the land whereunto they desire to return,"
Jeremiah 26:19: "against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls."
Jeremiah 31:12: "the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not"
Jeremiah 31:14: "And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,"
Jeremiah 31:25: "For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul."
Jeremiah 31:25: "and I have replenished every sorrowful soul."
