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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

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Job 41:21
    His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
  • Psalms 3:2
    Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
  • Psalms 6:3
    My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
  • Psalms 6:4
    Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
  • Psalms 7:2
    Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
  • Psalms 7:5
    Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
  • Psalms 10:3
    For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
  • Psalms 11:1
    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
  • Psalms 11:5
    The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
  • Psalms 13:2
    How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?