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)


  • Hosea 9:4 - They shall not offer of the LORD wine neither shall they be pleasing unto him their sacrifices for their bread of mourners all that eat thereof shall be polluted for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD

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

  • 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

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

  • Isaiah 5:14 - hath enlarged Therefore hell herself and opened her mouth without measure shall descend and their glory and their multitude and their pomp and he that rejoiceth

  • Isaiah 10:18 - the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field both soul and body And shall consume fainteth and they shall be as when a standardbearer

  • Isaiah 15:4 - shall cry And Heshbon and Elealeh even unto Jahaz shall be heard their voice therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out his life shall be grievous

  • Isaiah 19:10 - in the purposes And they shall be broken thereof all that make sluices and ponds for fish

  • Isaiah 26:8 - Yea in the way of thy judgments O LORD have we waited is to thy name and to the remembrance for thee the desire of our soul

  • Isaiah 26:9 - With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judgments are in the earth righteousness will learn the inhabitants of the world

  • Isaiah 29:8 - or as when dreameth It shall even be as when an hungry and behold he eateth but he awaketh is empty and his soul or as when dreameth a thirsty man and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint and his soul hath appetite so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against mount Zion

  • Isaiah 32:6 - For the vile person villany and to utter and his heart to practise iniquity to practise hypocrisy and to utter against the LORD error to make empty the soul of the hungry and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail

  • Isaiah 38:15 - What shall I say he hath both spoken unto me and himself hath done it I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul

  • Isaiah 38:17 - Behold for peace I had great bitterness I had great bitterness but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins

  • Isaiah 42:1 - Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect delighteth in whom my soul I have put my spirit judgment to the Gentiles upon him he shall bring forth

  • Isaiah 43:4 - Since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honourable and I have loved thee therefore will I give men for thee and people for thy life

  • Isaiah 44:20 - He feedeth on ashes heart a deceived hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor say Is there not a lie in my right hand

  • Isaiah 46:2 - They stoop they bow down together they could not deliver the burden but themselves into captivity are gone

  • Isaiah 47:14 - Behold they shall be as stubble the fire shall burn them they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame there shall not be a coal to warm at nor fire to sit

  • Isaiah 49:7 - Thus saith because of the LORD the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One despiseth to him whom man abhorreth to him whom the nation to a servant of rulers Kings shall see and arise princes also shall worship because of the LORD that is faithful and his Holy One of Israel and he shall choose