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:
Ezekiel 13:19: "that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live,"
Ezekiel 13:20: "there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from"
Ezekiel 13:20: "and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even"
Ezekiel 13:20: "them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that"
Ezekiel 14:14: "in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 14:20: "nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness."
Ezekiel 16:5: "thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born."
Ezekiel 16:27: "thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed"
Ezekiel 17:17: "forts, to cut off many persons:"
Ezekiel 18:4: "Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul"
Ezekiel 18:4: "Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul"
Ezekiel 18:4: "souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it"
Ezekiel 18:4: "of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die."
Ezekiel 18:20: " The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity"
Ezekiel 18:27: "and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive."
Ezekiel 22:25: "ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many"
Ezekiel 22:27: "to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain."
Ezekiel 23:17: "of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from"
Ezekiel 23:18: "and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as"
Ezekiel 23:18: "was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from"
Ezekiel 23:22: "thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring"
Ezekiel 23:28: "thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:"
Ezekiel 24:21: "of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom"
Ezekiel 24:25: "the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,"
Ezekiel 25:6: "and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land"
Ezekiel 25:15: "and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;"
Ezekiel 27:13: "they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market."
Ezekiel 27:31: "them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing."
Ezekiel 32:10: "thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life,"
Ezekiel 33:5: "shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul."
Ezekiel 33:6: "if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity;"
Ezekiel 33:9: "he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul."
Ezekiel 36:5: "with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey."
Ezekiel 47:9: "And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever"
Hosea 4:8: "the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity."
Hosea 9:4: "thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD."
Amos 2:14: "his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:"
Amos 2:15: "shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself."
Amos 6:8: "The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts,"
Jonah 1:14: "perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent"
Jonah 2:5: "The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped"
Jonah 2:7: " When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in"
Jonah 4:3: "take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die"
Jonah 4:8: "that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die"
Micah 6:7: "the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"
Micah 7:1: "there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit."
Micah 7:3: "and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up."
Habakkuk 2:4: "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith."
Habakkuk 2:5: "keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied,"
Habakkuk 2:10: "many people, and hast sinned against thy soul."
