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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.

  • Psalms 51:12
    Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
  • Psalms 51:17
    The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
  • Psalms 55:8
    I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
  • Psalms 76:12
    He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
  • Psalms 77:3
    I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Psalms 77:6
    I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
  • Psalms 78:8
    And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
  • Psalms 78:39
    For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
  • Psalms 83:13
    O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
  • Psalms 103:16
    For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.