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)


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

  • Jeremiah 5:29 - Shall I not visit for these things saith the LORD on such a nation be avenged shall not my soul

  • Jeremiah 6:8 - Be thou instructed O Jerusalem depart lest my soul from thee lest I make thee desolate a land not inhabited

  • Jeremiah 6:16 - But they said the LORD Stand way and see and ask paths for the old way where is the good therein and ye shall find rest for your souls But they said

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

  • Jeremiah 11:21 - Therefore thus saith of the LORD of Anathoth that seek thy life Therefore thus saith Prophesy not in the name of the LORD that thou die not by our hand

  • Jeremiah 12:7 - I have forsaken mine house I have left mine heritage I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies

  • Jeremiah 13:17 - But if ye will not hear in secret places shall weep it my soul for your pride shall weep shall weep and run down and mine eye with tears is carried away captive flock because the LORD'S

  • Jeremiah 14:19 - Hast thou utterly Hast thou utterly Judah Zion lothed hath thy soul why hast thou smitten of healing for us we looked for peace and there is no good and for the time of healing and behold trouble

  • Jeremiah 15:1 - Then said the LORD stood unto me Though Moses and Samuel before me yet my mind could not be toward this people cast them out before and let them go forth

  • Jeremiah 15:9 - languisheth She that hath borne seven she hath given up the ghost is gone her sun down while it was yet day she hath been ashamed and confounded and the residue to the sword of them will I deliver before their enemies saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 17:21 - Thus saith the LORD Take heed to yourselves and bear no burden day on the sabbath nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem

  • Jeremiah 18:20 - be recompensed for good Shall evil for they have digged a pit for my soul Remember that I stood before thee to speak for good for them and to turn away thy wrath

  • Jeremiah 19:7 - And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of them that seek their lives will I give and their carcases to be meat for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth

  • Jeremiah 19:9 - And I will cause them to eat and the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters every one and the flesh of his friend And I will cause them to eat in the siege and straitness shall straiten wherewith their enemies and they that seek their lives

  • Jeremiah 20:13 - Sing unto the LORD praise unto the LORD for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers

  • Jeremiah 21:7 - And afterward saith the LORD I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people and such as are left in this city from the pestilence from the sword and from the famine and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those that seek their life and he shall smite them with the edge from the sword he shall not spare them neither have pity nor have mercy

  • Jeremiah 21:9 - He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence but he that goeth out and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you he shall live and his life shall be unto him for a prey

  • Jeremiah 22:25 - And I will give and into the hand of them that seek thy life and into the hand thou fearest of them whose face and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans

  • Jeremiah 22:27 - But to the land whereunto they desire thither shall they not return thither shall they not return