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 44:30 - Thus saith the LORD Behold I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt and into the hand his enemy and into the hand and that sought his life Behold I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon his enemy and that sought his life

  • Jeremiah 45:5 - And seekest thou great things And seekest them not for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh saith the LORD will I give but thy life unto thee for a prey in all places

  • Jeremiah 46:26 - And I will deliver and into the hand of those that seek their lives and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants and afterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 48:6 - Flee save your lives and be like the heath in the wilderness

  • Jeremiah 49:37 - to be dismayed For I will cause Elam and before their enemies and before them that seek their life and I will bring evil upon them even my fierce anger saith the LORD and I will send after the sword them till I have consumed

  • Jeremiah 50:19 - And I will bring Israel to his habitation and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan upon mount Ephraim and Gilead shall be satisfied and his soul

  • Jeremiah 51:6 - Flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soul be not cut off in her iniquity for this is the time vengeance of the LORD'S unto her a recompence he will render

  • Jeremiah 51:14 - hath sworn The LORD of hosts by himself saying Surely I will fill thee with men as with caterpillers and they shall lift up a shout

  • Jeremiah 51:45 - go ye out of the midst My people of her and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD

  • Jeremiah 52:29 - year In the eighteenth of Nebuchadrezzar from Jerusalem persons In the eighteenth hundred thirty and two

  • Jeremiah 52:30 - year In the three and twentieth of Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard of the Jews all the persons seven hundred forty and five all the persons were four thousand and six hundred

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

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

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

  • Job 6:7 - refused to touch The things that my soul are as my sorrowful meat

  • Job 6:11 - What is my strength that I should hope and what is mine end that I should prolong my life

  • Job 7:11 - Therefore I will not refrain my mouth I will speak in the anguish of my spirit I will complain in the bitterness of my soul

  • Job 7:15 - chooseth strangling So that my soul and death rather than my life

  • Job 9:21 - Though I were perfect yet would I not know my soul I would despise my life

  • Job 10:1 - is weary My soul of my life I will leave my complaint upon myself I will speak in the bitterness My soul