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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

נֶ֫פֶשׁ 756 n.f. soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, and passion
1 = that which breathes, the breathing substance or being
2 The נפשׁ becomes a living being
3 The נפשׁ is specif.
4 The נפשׁ as the essential of man stands for the man himself
5 נפשׁ = seat of the appetites, in all periods (46 t.)
6 נ׳ = seat of emotions and passions
7 נפשׁ is used occasionally for mental acts
8 נפשׁ for acts of the will is dub.
9 נפשׁ = character is still more dub.
10 נ׳ in D

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


683 occurrences

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  • Job 3:20
    Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
  • Job 6:7
    The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
  • Job 6:11
    What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
  • 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.
  • Job 7:15
    So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
  • Job 9:21
    Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Job 12:10
    In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
  • Job 13:14
    Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?