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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 16:3
    Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
  • Job 17:1
    My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
  • Job 19:17
    My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
  • Job 20:3
    I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
  • Job 21:4
    As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
  • Job 21:18
    They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
  • Job 26:13
    By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
  • Job 27:3
    All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
  • Job 28:25
    To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
  • Job 30:15
    Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.