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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:

1 Kings 20:32: "Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive?"
1 Kings 20:39: "man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life,"
1 Kings 20:39: "by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent"
1 Kings 20:42: "out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life,"
1 Kings 20:42: "whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people."
2 Kings 1:13: "unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty"
2 Kings 1:13: "him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants,"
2 Kings 1:14: "captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight."
2 Kings 2:2: "said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down"
2 Kings 2:4: "And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came"
2 Kings 2:6: "And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two"
2 Kings 4:27: "said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from"
2 Kings 4:30: "said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose,"
2 Kings 7:7: "it was, and fled for their life."
2 Kings 9:15: "said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of"
2 Kings 10:24: "into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life"
2 Kings 10:24: "escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life"
2 Kings 12:4: "even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that"
2 Kings 23:3: "with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this"
2 Kings 23:25: "with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law"
1 Chronicles 5:21: "thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men a hundred thousand."
1 Chronicles 11:19: "this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives"
1 Chronicles 11:19: "the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would"
1 Chronicles 22:19: "Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise"
1 Chronicles 28:9: "him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all"
2 Chronicles 1:11: "asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet"
2 Chronicles 6:38: "thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives,"
2 Chronicles 15:12: "with all their heart and with all their soul;"
2 Chronicles 34:31: "with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant"
Esther 4:13: "to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house,"
Esther 7:3: "and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people"
Esther 7:7: "and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen;"
Esther 8:11: "city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish,"
Esther 9:16: "gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew"
Esther 9:31: "had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters"
Job 2:4: "yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life."
Job 2:6: "but save his life."
Job 3:20: "to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;"
Job 6:7: "The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat."
Job 6:11: "is mine end, that I should prolong my life?"
Job 7:11: "of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul."
Job 7:15: " So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life."
Job 9:21: "were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life."
Job 10:1: " My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness"
Job 10:1: "upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul."
Job 11:20: "and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost."
Job 12:10: "In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind."
Job 13:14: "do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?"
Job 14:22: "his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn."
Job 16:4: "also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up"









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