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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:

Isaiah 41:29: "their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion."
Isaiah 42:1: "in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles."
Isaiah 42:5: "breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk"
Isaiah 44:3: "upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon"
Isaiah 48:16: "there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent"
Isaiah 54:6: "thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused,"
Isaiah 57:13: "When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity"
Isaiah 57:15: "place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive"
Isaiah 57:15: "and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones."
Isaiah 57:16: "neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before"
Isaiah 59:19: "of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard"
Isaiah 59:21: "with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which"
Isaiah 61:1: " The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings"
Isaiah 61:3: "the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness,"
Isaiah 63:10: "and vexed his Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought"
Isaiah 63:11: "where is he that put his Holy Spirit within"
Isaiah 63:14: "As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead"
Isaiah 64:6: "do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."
Isaiah 65:14: "for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit."
Isaiah 66:2: "even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word."
Jeremiah 2:24: "used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who"
Jeremiah 4:11: "people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people,"
Jeremiah 4:12: "Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I"
Jeremiah 5:13: "And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done"
Jeremiah 10:13: "he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures."
Jeremiah 10:14: "by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath"
Jeremiah 13:24: "Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness."
Jeremiah 14:6: "in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because"
Jeremiah 18:17: "I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not"
Jeremiah 22:22: " The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely"
Jeremiah 49:32: "a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring"
Jeremiah 49:36: "Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,"
Jeremiah 49:36: "of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation"
Jeremiah 51:1: "in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;"
Jeremiah 51:11: "the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device"
Jeremiah 51:16: "he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures."
Jeremiah 51:17: "by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath"
Jeremiah 52:23: "ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network"
Lamentations 4:20: " The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said,"
Ezekiel 1:4: "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great"
Ezekiel 1:12: "straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went;"
Ezekiel 1:20: "Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither"
Ezekiel 1:20: "the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels"
Ezekiel 1:20: "to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."
Ezekiel 1:21: "the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."
Ezekiel 2:2: " And the spirit entered into me when he spoke unto me, and set me upon my feet,"
Ezekiel 3:12: " Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed"
Ezekiel 3:14: " So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand"
Ezekiel 3:14: "and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon"
Ezekiel 3:24: " Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spoke with me, and said"









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