Strong's #7307: ruwach (pronounced roo'-akh)
from 7306; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions):--air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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rûach
1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
1a) breath
1b) wind
1b1) of heaven
1b2) quarter (of wind), side
1b3) breath of air
1b4) air, gas
1b5) vain, empty thing
1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
1c2) courage
1c3) temper, anger
1c4) impatience, patience
1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
1c7) prophetic spirit
1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God' s spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
1e1) desire
1e2) sorrow, trouble
1f) spirit
1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
1f2) rarely of the will
1f3) as seat especially of moral character
1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
1g5) as energy of life
1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
1g7) never referred to as a depersonalized force
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H7306
Usage:
This word is used 378 times:
Ezra 1:1: "might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,"
Ezra 1:5: "and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build"
Nehemiah 9:20: "Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth,"
Nehemiah 9:30: "years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not"
Job 1:19: "And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote"
Job 4:9: "By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed."
Job 4:15: " Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:"
Job 6:4: "me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against"
Job 6:26: "words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?"
Job 7:7: "O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see"
Job 7:11: "my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul."
Job 8:2: "these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?"
Job 9:18: "He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness."
Job 10:12: "me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit."
Job 12:10: "is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind."
Job 15:2: "Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?"
Job 15:13: "That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?"
Job 15:30: "the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away."
Job 16:3: " Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?"
Job 17:1: " My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves"
Job 19:17: " My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body."
Job 20:3: "I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer."
Job 21:4: "and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?"
Job 21:18: "They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away."
Job 26:13: " By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent."
Job 27:3: "All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;"
Job 28:25: "To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure."
Job 30:15: "upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud."
Job 30:22: "Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance."
Job 32:8: "But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding."
Job 32:18: "For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth"
Job 33:4: " The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life."
Job 34:14: "upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;"
Job 37:21: "light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth"
Job 41:16: "is so near to another, that no air can come between"
Psalms 1:4: "but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away."
Psalms 11:6: "fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup."
Psalms 18:10: "yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind."
Psalms 18:15: "at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils."
Psalms 18:42: "Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets."
Psalms 31:5: "Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth."
Psalms 32:2: "imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile."
Psalms 33:6: "made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth."
Psalms 34:18: "heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."
Psalms 35:5: "Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase"
Psalms 48:7: "the ships of Tarshish with an east wind."
Psalms 51:10: "O God; and renew a right spirit within"
Psalms 51:11: "away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from"
Psalms 51:12: "of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit."
Psalms 51:17: "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God,"
