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)


  • Job 11:20 - But the eyes of the wicked shall fail and they shall not escape and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost

  • Job 12:10 - In whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind

  • Job 13:14 - Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth my life and put in mine hand

  • Job 14:22 - But his flesh upon him shall have pain and his soul within him shall mourn

  • Job 16:4 - I also could speak as ye do if were in my soul's in my soul's stead I could heap up words against you and shake at mine head

  • Job 18:4 - He teareth himself in his anger be forsaken shall the earth be removed for thee and shall the rock out of his place

  • Job 19:2 - How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words

  • Job 21:25 - And another dieth of his soul in the bitterness and never eateth with pleasure

  • Job 23:13 - But he is in one mind and who can turn him and what his soul desireth even that he doeth

  • Job 24:12 - from out of the city Men groan and the soul of the wounded crieth out yet God layeth not folly

  • Job 27:2 - liveth As God who hath taken away my judgment and the Almighty who hath vexed my soul

  • Job 27:8 - For what is the hope of the hypocrite though he hath gained taketh away when God his soul

  • Job 30:16 - is poured out And now my soul have taken hold upon me the days of affliction

  • Job 30:25 - Did not I weep for him that was in trouble grieved was not my soul for the poor

  • Job 31:30 - Neither have I suffered to sin my mouth by wishing a curse to his soul

  • Job 31:39 - the fruits If I have eaten thereof without money their life or have caused the owners thereof to lose

  • Job 32:2 - Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram against Job Then was kindled the wrath because he justified himself rather than God

  • Job 33:18 - He keepeth back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword

  • Job 33:20 - abhorreth So that his life bread and his soul meat dainty

  • Job 33:22 - draweth near unto the grave Yea his soul and his life to the destroyers