H5315 Definition

Strong's number
H5315
Lemma
נֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration
nephesh
Pronunciation
neh'-fesh
Strong's definition
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it. from H5314 (נָפַשׁ);

683 instances of the word נֶפֶשׁ nephesh (H5315)

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  • Exodus 1:5 - And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy And all the souls for Joseph was in Egypt

  • Song of Solomon 1:7 - Tell loveth me O thou whom my soul where where thou feedest where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions

  • 2 Samuel 1:9 - He said unto me again Stand I pray thee upon me and slay is come me for anguish upon me because my life

  • 1 Samuel 1:10 - And she was in bitterness of soul and prayed unto the LORD and wept and wept

  • 2 Chronicles 1:11 - said And God to Solomon Because this was in thine heart and thou hast not asked riches wealth or honour nor the life of thine enemies life long and thou hast not asked and thou hast not asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself that thou mayest judge my people over whom I have made thee king

  • Lamentations 1:11 - All her people sigh they seek bread they have given for meat to relieve the soul see O LORD and consider for I am become vile

  • 1 Kings 1:12 - let me I pray thee give thee counsel that thou mayest save and the life and the life of thy son Solomon

  • 2 Kings 1:13 - again And he sent a captain fifty And the third fifty went up and came a captain fifty And the third and fell on his knees before Elijah and besought him and said unto him O man of God be precious I pray thee let my life I pray thee let my life thy servants fifty in thy sight

  • 2 Kings 1:14 - Behold there came fire from heaven and burnt up the two captains fifties of the former fifties now be precious therefore let my life in thy sight

  • Isaiah 1:14 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts hateth my soul they are a trouble unto me I am weary to bear

  • Jonah 1:14 - Wherefore they cried O LORD and said We beseech thee O LORD we beseech thee let us not perish life for this man's and lay blood not upon us innocent O LORD as it pleased hast done

  • 1 Samuel 1:15 - answered And Hannah and said No my lord I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit neither wine nor strong drink I have drunk but have poured out my soul before the LORD

  • Lamentations 1:16 - For these things I weep mine eye mine eye runneth down with water is far because the comforter that should relieve my soul from me my children are desolate prevailed because the enemy

  • Proverbs 1:18 - for their own blood And they lay wait they lurk privily for their own lives

  • Lamentations 1:19 - I called for my lovers but they deceived me my priests and mine elders in the city gave up the ghost while they sought their meat to relieve their souls

  • Proverbs 1:19 - So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain the life of the owners which taketh away

  • Genesis 1:20 - said And God bring forth abundantly Let the waters the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth above in the open firmament of heaven

  • Genesis 1:21 - created And God whales great creature and every living that moveth brought forth abundantly which the waters after his kind fowl and every winged after his kind saw And God that it was good

  • Genesis 1:24 - said And God bring forth Let the earth creature and beast after his kind cattle and creeping thing and beast Let the earth after his kind

  • 1 Samuel 1:26 - And she said Oh my lord liveth as thy soul my lord I am the woman that stood by thee here praying unto the LORD

  • 1 Kings 1:29 - sware And the king and said liveth As the LORD that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress

  • Genesis 1:30 - And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that creepeth of the earth And to every beast I have given every green herb for meat

  • Leviticus 2:1 - And when any will offer his offering a meat unto the LORD shall be of fine flour his offering and he shall pour oil upon it and put frankincense

  • 2 Kings 2:2 - said And Elijah And Elisha Tarry here I pray thee for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel said And Elisha liveth here I pray thee for the LORD liveth and as thy soul I will not leave thee So they went down me to Bethel

  • Habakkuk 2:4 - which is lifted up is not upright Behold his soul in him but the just by his faith shall live

  • 1 Kings 2:4 - may continue That the LORD his word which he spake concerning me saying take heed If thy children to their way before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul concerning me saying there shall not fail he a man on the throne of Israel

  • 2 Kings 2:4 - And he said And Elijah unto him Elisha tarry As the LORD hath sent me to Jericho And he said liveth As the LORD liveth and as thy soul I will not leave thee So they came me to Jericho

  • Job 2:4 - answered And Satan the LORD and said Skin Skin yea all that a man hath will he give for his life

  • Habakkuk 2:5 - by wine Yea also because he transgresseth man he is a proud neither keepeth at home who enlargeth as hell his desire and is as death and cannot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all nations and heapeth unto him all people

  • Jonah 2:5 - compassed me about The waters even to the soul the depth closed me round about the weeds were wrapped about my head

  • 2 Kings 2:6 - And he said And Elijah unto him Tarry As the LORD hath sent me to Jordan And he said liveth As the LORD liveth and as thy soul I will not leave thee And they two

  • Job 2:6 - said And the LORD unto Satan Behold he is in thine hand his life but save

  • Genesis 2:7 - formed And the LORD God and man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath became a living and man soul became a living

  • Jonah 2:7 - fainted When my soul the LORD within me I remembered came in and my prayer temple unto thee into thine holy

  • Habakkuk 2:10 - Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off people many and hast sinned against thy soul

  • Proverbs 2:10 - entereth When wisdom into thine heart and knowledge unto thy soul is pleasant

  • Lamentations 2:12 - into their mothers They say Where is corn and wine when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city was poured out when their soul bosom into their mothers

  • Haggai 2:13 - Then said Haggai touch If one that is unclean by a dead body It shall be unclean answered And the priests Then said It shall be unclean

  • Joshua 2:13 - And that ye will save alive my father and my mother and my brethren and my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death

  • Amos 2:14 - shall perish Therefore the flight from the swift and the strong shall not strengthen his force neither shall the mighty deliver himself

  • Joshua 2:14 - answered her Our life for yours if ye utter not this our business hath given And it shall be when the LORD us the land that we will deal kindly and truly

  • Amos 2:15 - that handleth the bow Neither shall he stand and he that is swift of foot deliver himself neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself

  • 1 Samuel 2:16 - said And if any man to burn to burn presently the fat and then take as much as thy soul said him Nay but thou shalt give and then take it by force

  • Genesis 2:19 - formed the LORD God And out of the ground every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them and whatsoever Adam to see called called them and whatsoever Adam creature every beast that was the name thereof

  • Lamentations 2:19 - Arise cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches pour out like water thine heart before the face of the Lord lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the beginning of every street

  • 1 Kings 2:23 - sware Then king Solomon by the LORD saying do God so to me and more also against his own life have not spoken if Adonijah this word

  • Ecclesiastes 2:24 - There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and that he should make his soul There is nothing better in his labour This also I saw that it was from the hand of God

  • Jeremiah 2:24 - A wild ass used to the wilderness at her pleasure that snuffeth up the wind in her occasion who can turn her away all they that seek her will not weary themselves in her month they shall find

  • 1 Samuel 2:33 - And the man of thine whom I shall not cut off from mine altar shall be to consume thine eyes and to grieve thine heart and all the increase of thine house shall die And the man

  • Jeremiah 2:34 - Also in thy skirts I have not found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents it by secret search I have not found

  • 1 Samuel 2:35 - And I will raise me up priest a faithful according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind that shall do and I will build house a faithful and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever

  • Song of Solomon 3:1 - on my bed By night I sought loveth him whom my soul I sought him but I found

  • Psalms 3:2 - Many there be which say of my soul There is no help for him in God Selah

  • Song of Solomon 3:2 - I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and in the broad ways I sought loveth him whom my soul I sought him but I found

  • Song of Solomon 3:3 - found The watchmen that go about the city loveth ye him whom my soul me to whom I said Saw

  • Song of Solomon 3:4 - It was but a little that I passed from them but I found loveth him whom my soul I held him and would not let him go until I had brought house him into my mother's and into the chamber of her that conceived

  • Isaiah 3:9 - The shew of their countenance doth witness against them their sin as Sodom and they declare they hide it not Woe unto their soul for they have rewarded evil

  • 1 Kings 3:11 - said And God and hast not asked this thing and hast not asked life for thyself long and hast not asked riches and hast not asked the life of thine enemies and hast not asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment

  • Jeremiah 3:11 - said And the LORD hath justified herself unto me The backsliding Israel more than treacherous Judah

  • Lamentations 3:17 - And thou hast removed from peace my soul I forgat prosperity

  • Ezekiel 3:19 - Yet if thou warn nor from his wicked and he turn not from his wickedness way nor from his wicked in his iniquity he shall die thy soul but thou hast delivered

  • Isaiah 3:20 - The bonnets and the ornaments of the legs and the headbands and the tablets and the earrings

  • Job 3:20 - given to him that is in misery Wherefore is light and life unto the bitter in soul

  • Lamentations 3:20 - hath them still hath them still and is humbled My soul

  • Ezekiel 3:21 - Nevertheless if thou warn man that the righteous not and he doth not sin man that the righteous not and he doth not sin he shall surely he shall surely Nevertheless if thou warn thy soul also thou hast delivered

  • 2 Samuel 3:21 - said Abner And David I will arise and will gather unto my lord the king all Israel that they may make a league with thee and that thou mayest reign desireth over all that thine heart away And David Abner in peace

  • Proverbs 3:22 - So shall they be life unto thy soul and grace to thy neck

  • Lamentations 3:24 - is my portion The LORD saith my soul therefore will I hope

  • Lamentations 3:25 - is good The LORD unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh

  • Lamentations 3:51 - Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city

  • Lamentations 3:58 - thou hast pleaded O Lord the causes of my soul thou hast redeemed my life

  • Leviticus 4:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel saying If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD and shall do and shall do against any of them

  • Jonah 4:3 - Therefore now O LORD take I beseech thee my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live

  • Ecclesiastes 4:8 - There is one alone and there is not a second yea he hath neither child nor brother yet is there no end of all his labour neither is his eye satisfied with riches neither saith he For whom do I labour and bereave my soul of good This is also vanity travail yea it is a sore

  • Hosea 4:8 - the sin of my people They eat up on their iniquity and they set their heart

  • 2 Samuel 4:8 - And they brought Behold the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron and said the king Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy which sought thy life hath and the LORD my lord the king avenged this day of Saul and of his seed

  • Jonah 4:8 - did arise And it came to pass when the sun prepared that God wind east a vehement beat And it came to pass when the sun upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in himself to die and said It is better for me to die than to live

  • Deuteronomy 4:9 - Only take heed Only take heed thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things have seen which thine eyes and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life but teach and thy sons and thy sons and thy sons

  • 2 Samuel 4:9 - answered And David Rechab and Baanah his brother the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite and said liveth unto them As the LORD who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity

  • Jeremiah 4:10 - Then said I Ah Lord GOD surely deceived deceived this people and Jerusalem Then said Ye shall have peace reacheth whereas the sword unto the soul

  • Esther 4:13 - commanded Then Mordecai to answer Esther Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape house in the king's more than all the Jews

  • Ezekiel 4:14 - Then said I Ah Lord GOD behold my soul hath not been polluted of that which dieth of itself or is torn in pieces up even till now have I not eaten for from my youth neither came into my mouth flesh there abominable

  • Deuteronomy 4:15 - heed Take ye therefore good unto yourselves for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day spake that the LORD unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire

  • Ruth 4:15 - And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy daughter in law which loveth hath born thee which is better to thee than seven sons

  • Exodus 4:19 - said And the LORD unto Moses in Midian return into Egypt are dead for all the men which sought thy life

  • Jeremiah 4:19 - My bowels My bowels I am pained at my very heart maketh a noise heart in me I cannot hold my peace the sound of the trumpet because thou hast heard O my soul the alarm of war

  • 2 Kings 4:27 - And when she came And the man of God to the hill she caught him by the feet came near but Gehazi to thrust her away said And the man of God Let her alone for her soul is vexed within her and the LORD hath hid it from me and hath not told

  • Leviticus 4:27 - one And if any sin through ignorance people of the common concerning things which ought not to be done And if any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done and be guilty

  • Deuteronomy 4:29 - But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul

  • 2 Kings 4:30 - said And the mother of the child liveth As the LORD liveth and as thy soul I will not leave thee And he arose

  • Jeremiah 4:30 - And when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do Though thou clothest thyself with crimson though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold though thou rentest with painting thy face in vain shalt thou make thyself fair will despise thy lovers thy life thee they will seek

  • Jeremiah 4:31 - a voice as of a woman in travail For I have heard and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child a voice of the daughter of Zion that bewaileth herself that spreadeth her hands saying Woe is wearied is me now! for my soul because of murderers

  • Leviticus 5:1 - And if a soul sin and hear the voice of swearing and is a witness whether he hath seen whether or known of it if he do not utter it then he shall bear his iniquity

  • Leviticus 5:2 - Or if a soul touch thing any unclean or a carcase beast any unclean or a carcase cattle any unclean or a carcase creeping things any unclean and if it be hidden any unclean and guilty

  • Numbers 5:2 - Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper and every one that hath an issue and whosoever is defiled by the dead

  • Leviticus 5:4 - Or if a soul swear pronouncing with his lips to do evil or to do good pronouncing whatsoever it be that a man with an oath and it be hid from him when he knoweth of it then he shall be guilty in one

  • Numbers 5:6 - Speak unto the children of Israel When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the LORD be guilty and that person

  • Song of Solomon 5:6 - I opened but my beloved but my beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone my soul failed when he spake I sought him but I could not find him I called him but he gave me no answer

  • 2 Samuel 5:8 - he shall be chief and captain Wherefore they said And David on that day and smiteth the Jebusites Whosoever getteth up to the gutter and the lame The blind that are hated soul And David he shall be chief and captain Wherefore they said The blind and the lame shall not come into the house

  • Jeremiah 5:9 - Shall I not visit for these things saith the LORD on such a nation be avenged and shall not my soul

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