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Strong's numbers

רוּחַ H7307

rûwach

roo'-akh

from רוּחַ; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions); air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

רוּחַ 378 n.f. (less oft. m.) breath, wind, spirit
1 breath of mouth or nostrils (33 t.)
2 wind (117 t.)
3 spirit, as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation = temper, disposition (76 t.)
4 spirit of the living, breathing being
5 spirit as seat of emotion
6 occasionally (and late) = seat or organ of mental acts
7 rarely of the will
8 רוּחַ esp. of moral character
9 spirit of God (94 t.)

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


348 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Genesis 1:2
    And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
  • Genesis 3:8
    And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
  • Genesis 6:3
    And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
  • Genesis 6:17
    And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
  • Genesis 7:15
    And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
  • Genesis 7:22
    All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
  • Genesis 8:1
    And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
  • Genesis 26:35
    Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
  • Genesis 41:8
    And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
  • Genesis 41:38
    And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?