Strong's #5397: nshamah (pronounced nesh-aw-maw')

from 5395; a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal:--blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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neshâmâh

1) breath, spirit

1a) breath (of God)

1b) breath (of man)

1c) every breathing thing

1d) spirit (of man)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H5395

Usage:

This word is used 24 times:

 

Genesis 2:7: "the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living"
Genesis 7:22: "All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that"
Deuteronomy 20:16: "doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:"
Joshua 10:40: "remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel"
Joshua 11:11: "them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire."
Joshua 11:14: "them, neither left they any to breathe."
2 Samuel 22:16: "were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils."
1 Kings 15:29: "not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD,"
1 Kings 17:17: "sore, that there was no breath left"
Job 4:9: " By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed."
Job 26:4: "hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from"
Job 27:3: "All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;"
Job 32:8: "But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding."
Job 33:4: "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life."
Job 34:14: "man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;"
Job 37:10: " By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened."
Psalms 18:15: "were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils."
Psalms 150:6: "Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD."
Proverbs 20:27: " The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly."
Isaiah 2:22: "ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he"
Isaiah 30:33: "the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone,"
Isaiah 42:5: "the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk"
Isaiah 57:16: "for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made."
Daniel 10:17: "there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left"