Strong's numbers
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
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.
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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.
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Psalms 146:1
Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
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Proverbs 1:18
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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Proverbs 2:10
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
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Proverbs 3:22
So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
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Proverbs 6:16
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
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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.
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Proverbs 6:30
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
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Proverbs 6:32
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.