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:
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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:
Psalms 35:3: "the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation."
Psalms 35:4: "Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise"
Psalms 35:7: "in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul."
Psalms 35:9: " And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation."
Psalms 35:12: "for good to the spoiling of my soul."
Psalms 35:13: "my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into"
Psalms 35:17: "how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions."
Psalms 35:25: "say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up."
Psalms 38:12: "They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine"
Psalms 40:14: "and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame"
Psalms 41:2: "upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies."
Psalms 41:4: "LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned"
Psalms 42:1: "brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God."
Psalms 42:2: " My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear"
Psalms 42:4: "When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude,"
Psalms 42:5: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for"
Psalms 42:6: "O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land"
Psalms 42:11: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God:"
Psalms 43:5: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God:"
Psalms 44:25: "For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth."
Psalms 49:8: "(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth forever:)"
Psalms 49:15: "But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for"
Psalms 49:18: "Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well"
Psalms 54:3: "against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before"
Psalms 54:4: "is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul."
Psalms 55:18: "He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many"
Psalms 56:6: "my steps, when they wait for my soul."
Psalms 56:13: "For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling,"
Psalms 57:1: "Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings"
Psalms 57:4: " My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth"
Psalms 57:6: "They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before"
Psalms 59:3: "For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not"
Psalms 62:1: "A Psalm of David. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from"
Psalms 62:5: " My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from"
Psalms 63:1: "thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry"
Psalms 63:5: " My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful"
Psalms 63:8: " My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth"
Psalms 63:9: "But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth."
Psalms 66:9: "Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved."
Psalms 66:16: "and I will declare what he hath done for my soul."
Psalms 69:1: "the waters are come in unto my soul."
Psalms 69:10: "When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach."
Psalms 69:18: "Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies."
Psalms 70:2: "Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire"
Psalms 71:10: "mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,"
Psalms 71:13: "Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek"
Psalms 71:23: "shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed."
Psalms 72:13: "He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy."
Psalms 72:14: "He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood"
Psalms 74:19: "O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation"
