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:
Hosea 12:1: "Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth"
Hosea 13:15: "his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness,"
Joel 2:28: "afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;"
Joel 2:29: "days will I pour out my spirit."
Amos 4:13: "he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought,"
Jonah 1:4: "But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty"
Jonah 4:8: "prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head"
Micah 2:7: "O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings?"
Micah 2:11: "If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine"
Micah 3:8: "am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare"
Habakkuk 1:11: "Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god."
Habakkuk 2:19: "with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst"
Haggai 1:14: "And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor"
Haggai 1:14: "of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high"
Haggai 1:14: "of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came"
Haggai 2:5: "with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear"
Zechariah 2:6: "the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith"
Zechariah 4:6: "nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts."
Zechariah 5:9: "there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings"
Zechariah 6:5: "unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing"
Zechariah 6:8: "country have quieted my spirit in the north country."
Zechariah 7:12: "which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets:"
Zechariah 12:1: "and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within"
Zechariah 12:10: "and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon"
Zechariah 13:2: "I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land."
Malachi 2:15: "he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly"
Malachi 2:15: "a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth."
Malachi 2:16: "the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously."
