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:
Psalms 55:8: "I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest."
Psalms 76:12: "He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth."
Psalms 77:3: "God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah."
Psalms 77:6: "I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search."
Psalms 78:8: "generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast"
Psalms 78:39: "that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again."
Psalms 83:13: "them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind."
Psalms 103:16: "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more."
Psalms 104:3: "who walketh upon the wings of the wind:"
Psalms 104:4: "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:"
Psalms 104:29: "thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust."
Psalms 104:30: "Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth."
Psalms 106:33: "Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips."
Psalms 107:25: "For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves"
Psalms 135:7: "he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries."
Psalms 135:17: "not; neither is there any breath in their mouths."
Psalms 139:7: "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?"
Psalms 142:3: " When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein"
Psalms 143:4: " Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate."
Psalms 143:7: "Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face"
Psalms 143:10: "for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness."
Psalms 146:4: " His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish."
Psalms 147:18: "He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow."
Psalms 148:8: "snow, and vapor; stormy wind fulfilling his word:"
Proverbs 1:23: "you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words"
Proverbs 11:13: "A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter."
Proverbs 11:29: "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart."
Proverbs 14:29: "is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly."
Proverbs 15:4: "of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit."
Proverbs 15:13: "countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken."
Proverbs 16:2: "in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits."
Proverbs 16:18: "goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
Proverbs 16:19: "Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil"
Proverbs 16:32: "is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."
Proverbs 17:22: "doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."
Proverbs 17:27: "his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit."
Proverbs 18:14: " The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?"
Proverbs 18:14: "will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?"
Proverbs 25:14: "of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain."
Proverbs 25:23: "The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue."
Proverbs 25:28: "that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls."
Proverbs 27:16: "Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which betrayeth"
Proverbs 29:11: "A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards."
Proverbs 29:23: "but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit."
Proverbs 30:4: "or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters"
Ecclesiastes 1:6: " The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about"
Ecclesiastes 1:6: "the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits."
Ecclesiastes 1:14: "and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Ecclesiastes 1:17: "that this also is vexation of spirit."
Ecclesiastes 2:11: "that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no"
