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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 74:19
    O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
  • Psalms 77:2
    In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
  • Psalms 78:18
    And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
  • Psalms 78:50
    He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
  • Psalms 84:2
    My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
  • Psalms 86:2
    Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
  • Psalms 86:4
    Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
  • Psalms 86:13
    For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  • Psalms 86:14
    O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
  • Psalms 88:3
    For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.