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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 143:12
    And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
  • Psalms 146:1
    Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
  • Proverbs 1:18
    And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
  • Proverbs 1:19
    So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
  • Proverbs 2:10
    When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
  • Proverbs 3:22
    So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
  • Proverbs 6:16
    These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
  • Proverbs 6:26
    For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
  • Proverbs 6:30
    Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
  • Proverbs 6:32
    But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.