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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.

  • Isaiah 65:14
    Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
  • Isaiah 66:2
    For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
  • Jeremiah 2:24
    A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
  • Jeremiah 4:11
    At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
  • Jeremiah 4:12
    Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
  • Jeremiah 5:13
    And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
  • Jeremiah 10:13
    When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
  • Jeremiah 10:14
    Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
  • Jeremiah 13:24
    Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
  • Jeremiah 14:6
    And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.