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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.

  • Job 6:26
    Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
  • Job 7:7
    O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
  • Job 7:11
    Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 8:2
    How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
  • Job 9:18
    He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
  • Job 10:12
    Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
  • Job 12:10
    In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
  • Job 15:2
    Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
  • Job 15:13
    That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
  • Job 15:30
    He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.