Strong's numbers
נֶפֶשׁ H5315
nephesh
neh'-fesh
from נָפַשׁ; 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, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.
Brown–Driver–Briggs
From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.
683 occurrences
Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.
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Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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Job 6:7
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
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Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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Job 7:11
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 7:15
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
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Job 9:21
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
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Job 12:10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
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Job 13:14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?