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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 104:3
    Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
  • Psalms 104:4
    Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
  • Psalms 104:29
    Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
  • Psalms 104:30
    Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
  • Psalms 106:33
    Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
  • Psalms 107:25
    For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
  • Psalms 135:7
    He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
  • Psalms 135:17
    They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
  • Psalms 139:7
    Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
  • Psalms 142:3
    When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.