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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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  • Psalms 25:20
    O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
  • Psalms 26:9
    Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
  • Psalms 27:12
    Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
  • Psalms 30:3
    O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
  • Psalms 31:7
    I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
  • Psalms 31:9
    Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
  • Psalms 31:13
    For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
  • Psalms 33:19
    To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
  • Psalms 33:20
    Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
  • Psalms 34:2
    My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.