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:
ּ
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:
1 Samuel 1:15: "my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine"
1 Samuel 10:6: " And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another"
1 Samuel 10:10: "a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied"
1 Samuel 11:6: " And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those"
1 Samuel 16:13: "and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David"
1 Samuel 16:14: " But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit"
1 Samuel 16:14: "from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD"
1 Samuel 16:15: "him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth"
1 Samuel 16:16: "and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand,"
1 Samuel 16:23: "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took"
1 Samuel 16:23: "was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from"
1 Samuel 18:10: "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon"
1 Samuel 19:9: "And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat"
1 Samuel 19:20: "standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers"
1 Samuel 19:23: "to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him"
1 Samuel 30:12: "and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten"
2 Samuel 22:11: "and he was seen upon the wings of the wind."
2 Samuel 22:16: "at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils."
2 Samuel 23:2: " The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue."
1 Kings 10:5: "there was no more spirit"
1 Kings 18:12: "as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither"
1 Kings 18:45: "in the meanwhile, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was"
1 Kings 19:11: "passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks"
1 Kings 19:11: "the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD"
1 Kings 19:11: "was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:"
1 Kings 21:5: "him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no"
1 Kings 22:21: "And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade"
1 Kings 22:22: "I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said,"
1 Kings 22:23: "the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets,"
1 Kings 22:24: "Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak"
2 Kings 2:9: "said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon"
2 Kings 2:15: "were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on"
2 Kings 2:16: "and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast"
2 Kings 3:17: "the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that"
2 Kings 19:7: "Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall"
1 Chronicles 5:26: "of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit"
1 Chronicles 5:26: "of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he carried them away,"
1 Chronicles 9:24: "In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south."
1 Chronicles 12:18: " Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side,"
1 Chronicles 28:12: "of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 9:4: "there was no more spirit"
2 Chronicles 15:1: " And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:"
2 Chronicles 18:20: "Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice"
2 Chronicles 18:21: "I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said,"
2 Chronicles 18:22: "the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD"
2 Chronicles 18:23: "Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from"
2 Chronicles 20:14: "the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;"
2 Chronicles 21:16: "against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near"
2 Chronicles 24:20: " And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest,"
2 Chronicles 36:22: "the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation"
