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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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  • Proverbs 7:23
    Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
  • Proverbs 8:36
    But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
  • Proverbs 10:3
    The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
  • Proverbs 11:17
    The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
  • Proverbs 11:25
    The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
  • Proverbs 11:30
    The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
  • Proverbs 12:10
    A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
  • Proverbs 13:2
    A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
  • Proverbs 13:3
    He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
  • Proverbs 13:4
    The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.