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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.

  • Proverbs 15:4
    A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
  • Proverbs 15:13
    A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
  • Proverbs 16:2
    All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
  • Proverbs 16:18
    Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
  • Proverbs 16:19
    Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
  • Proverbs 16:32
    He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
  • Proverbs 17:22
    A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
  • Proverbs 17:27
    He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
  • Proverbs 18:14
    The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
  • Proverbs 25:14
    Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.