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:
Ecclesiastes 2:17: "me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Ecclesiastes 2:26: "This also is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Ecclesiastes 3:19: "the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above"
Ecclesiastes 3:21: "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit"
Ecclesiastes 3:21: "that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward"
Ecclesiastes 4:4: "This is also vanity and vexation of spirit."
Ecclesiastes 4:6: "with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit."
Ecclesiastes 4:16: "also is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Ecclesiastes 5:16: "shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath labored for the wind?"
Ecclesiastes 6:9: "this is also vanity and vexation of spirit."
Ecclesiastes 7:8: "of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud"
Ecclesiastes 7:8: "thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit."
Ecclesiastes 7:9: "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom"
Ecclesiastes 8:8: "There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither"
Ecclesiastes 8:8: "over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death:"
Ecclesiastes 10:4: "If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place;"
Ecclesiastes 11:4: "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap."
Ecclesiastes 11:5: "not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so"
Ecclesiastes 12:7: "to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God"
Isaiah 4:4: "the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning."
Isaiah 4:4: "from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning."
Isaiah 7:2: "of the wood are moved with the wind."
Isaiah 11:2: " And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit"
Isaiah 11:2: "of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel"
Isaiah 11:2: "him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge"
Isaiah 11:2: "the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;"
Isaiah 11:4: "the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked."
Isaiah 11:15: "of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river,"
Isaiah 17:13: "and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind."
Isaiah 19:3: " And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to"
Isaiah 19:14: "The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err"
Isaiah 25:4: "from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm"
Isaiah 26:9: "have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when"
Isaiah 26:18: "we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth;"
Isaiah 27:8: "thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind."
Isaiah 28:6: " And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle"
Isaiah 29:10: "the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes:"
Isaiah 29:24: "They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine."
Isaiah 30:1: "me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to"
Isaiah 30:28: " And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations"
Isaiah 31:3: "and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth"
Isaiah 32:2: "And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water"
Isaiah 32:15: "Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be"
Isaiah 33:11: "chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour"
Isaiah 34:16: "shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it"
Isaiah 37:7: "Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land;"
Isaiah 38:16: "and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live."
Isaiah 40:7: "the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people"
Isaiah 40:13: "Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor hath taught"
Isaiah 41:16: "Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD,"
