Strong's #5315: nephesh (pronounced neh'-fesh)
from 5314; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental):--any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ
nephesh
1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
1b) living being
1c) living being (with life in the blood)
1d) the man himself, self, person or individual
1e) seat of the appetites
1f) seat of emotions and passions
1g) activity of mind
1g1) dubious
1h) activity of the will
1h1) dubious
1i) activity of the character
1i1) dubious
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H5314
Usage:
This word is used 753 times:
Jeremiah 32:41: "assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul."
Jeremiah 34:16: "whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be"
Jeremiah 34:20: "of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls"
Jeremiah 34:21: "of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army,"
Jeremiah 37:9: "the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart"
Jeremiah 38:2: "the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live."
Jeremiah 38:16: "made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give"
Jeremiah 38:16: "that seek thy life."
Jeremiah 38:17: "unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city"
Jeremiah 38:20: "speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live."
Jeremiah 39:18: "I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because"
Jeremiah 40:14: "hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah"
Jeremiah 40:15: "man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered"
Jeremiah 42:20: "For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD"
Jeremiah 43:6: "and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard"
Jeremiah 44:7: "this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child"
Jeremiah 44:14: "of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell"
Jeremiah 44:30: "of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah"
Jeremiah 44:30: "of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life."
Jeremiah 45:5: "saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all"
Jeremiah 46:26: "And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,"
Jeremiah 48:6: "Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness."
Jeremiah 49:37: "their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even"
Jeremiah 50:19: "and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead."
Jeremiah 51:6: "out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity;"
Jeremiah 51:14: "The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men,"
Jeremiah 51:45: "ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger"
Jeremiah 52:29: "from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:"
Jeremiah 52:30: "hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand"
Jeremiah 52:30: "and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred."
Lamentations 1:11: "their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for"
Lamentations 1:16: "because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are"
Lamentations 1:19: "their meat to relieve their souls."
Lamentations 2:12: "as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom."
Lamentations 2:19: "thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top"
Lamentations 3:17: " And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity."
Lamentations 3:20: " My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in"
Lamentations 3:24: "The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope"
Lamentations 3:25: "The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh"
Lamentations 3:51: "Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city."
Lamentations 3:58: "O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life."
Lamentations 5:9: "We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness."
Ezekiel 3:19: "shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul."
Ezekiel 3:21: "he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul."
Ezekiel 4:14: "Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth"
Ezekiel 7:19: "of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because"
Ezekiel 13:18: "the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people,"
Ezekiel 13:18: "stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive"
Ezekiel 13:18: "souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive"
Ezekiel 13:19: "and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive"
