Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H5315: נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh) 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)


  • 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

  • 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

  • Genesis 9:4 - But flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof shall ye not eat

  • Genesis 9:5 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require and at the hand of every beast will I require and at the hand of man and at the hand of every man's brother will I require of your lives of man

  • Genesis 9:10 - creature And with every living that is with you of the fowl of the cattle And with every living of the earth with you from all that go out of the ark And with every living of the earth

  • Genesis 9:12 - said And God This is the token of the covenant which I make creature between me and you and every living generations that is with you for perpetual

  • Genesis 9:15 - And I will remember my covenant creature which is between me and you and every living all flesh shall no more and the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh

  • Genesis 9:16 - And the bow shall be in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember covenant the everlasting and God and creature every living of all flesh that is upon the earth

  • Genesis 12:5 - took And Abram Sarai his wife and Lot son his brother's and all their substance that they had gathered and the souls that they had gotten in Haran and they went forth and into the land of Canaan they came and into the land of Canaan

  • Genesis 12:13 - Say I pray thee thou art my sister that it may be well shall live with me for thy sake and my soul because of thee

  • Genesis 14:21 - said And the king of Sodom unto Abram Give me the persons the goods and take

  • Genesis 17:14 - And the uncircumcised man child whose is not circumcised flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off that soul from his people my covenant he hath broken

  • Genesis 19:17 - And it came to pass when they had brought them forth abroad that he said Escape for thy life look not behind thee neither stay thou in all the plain to the mountain Escape lest thou be consumed

  • Genesis 19:19 - hath found Behold now thy servant grace in thy sight and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life and I cannot escape to the mountain take lest some evil me and I die

  • Genesis 19:20 - Behold now this city is near to flee unto and it is a little one Oh let me escape is a little one unto and it shall live and my soul

  • Genesis 23:8 - And he communed with them saying If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight hear me and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar

  • Genesis 27:4 - And make me savoury meat such as I love and bring it to me that I may eat may bless that my soul thee before I die

  • Genesis 27:19 - said And Jacob unto his father I am Esau thy firstborn I have done according as thou badest me arise I pray thee sit and eat of my venison may bless that thy soul

  • Genesis 27:25 - And he said Bring it near to him and he did eat venison of my son's may bless that my soul Bring it near to him and he did eat and he brought him wine and he drank

  • Genesis 27:31 - And he also had made savoury meat and brought it Let my father and said Let my father arise Let my father and eat venison of his son's may bless that thy soul