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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 14:22
    But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
  • Job 16:4
    I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
  • Job 18:4
    He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
  • Job 19:2
    How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
  • Job 21:25
    And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
  • Job 23:13
    But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
  • Job 24:12
    Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
  • Job 27:2
    As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
  • Job 27:8
    For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
  • Job 30:16
    And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.