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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)

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  • Job 33:28 - He will deliver his soul from going into the pit and his life the light shall see

  • Job 33:30 - To bring back his soul from the pit to be enlightened with the light of the living

  • Job 36:14 - die in youth They and their life is among the unclean

  • Job 41:21 - His breath coals kindleth and a flame of his mouth goeth out

  • Jonah 1:14 - Wherefore they cried O LORD and said We beseech thee O LORD we beseech thee let us not perish life for this man's and lay blood not upon us innocent O LORD as it pleased hast done

  • Jonah 2:5 - compassed me about The waters even to the soul the depth closed me round about the weeds were wrapped about my head

  • Jonah 2:7 - fainted When my soul the LORD within me I remembered came in and my prayer temple unto thee into thine holy

  • Jonah 4:3 - Therefore now O LORD take I beseech thee my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live

  • Jonah 4:8 - did arise And it came to pass when the sun prepared that God wind east a vehement beat And it came to pass when the sun upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in himself to die and said It is better for me to die than to live

  • Joshua 2:13 - And that ye will save alive my father and my mother and my brethren and my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death

  • Joshua 2:14 - answered her Our life for yours if ye utter not this our business hath given And it shall be when the LORD us the land that we will deal kindly and truly

  • Joshua 9:24 - And they answered Joshua and said Because it was certainly Because it was certainly his servant commanded how that the LORD thy God Moses his servant to give of the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land because afraid you therefore we were sore of our lives because of you and have done this thing

  • Joshua 10:28 - Makkedah took Joshua And that day and smote it with the edge of the sword and the king thereof he utterly destroyed them and all the souls that were therein he let none remain and he did and the king Makkedah and he did and the king of Jericho

  • Joshua 10:30 - delivered And the LORD thereof into the hand of Israel it also and the king and he smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were therein he let none remain in it but did it also and the king in it but did it also and the king of Jericho

  • Joshua 10:32 - delivered And the LORD Lachish into the hand of Israel which took day it on the second and smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were therein according to all that he had done to Libnah

  • Joshua 10:35 - And they took it on that day and smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls it on that day that were therein he utterly destroyed according to all that he had done to Lachish

  • Joshua 10:37 - And they took it and smote it with the edge of the sword and the king thereof and all the cities it utterly and all the souls that were therein he left none remaining according to all that he had done to Eglon but destroyed it utterly and all the souls

  • Joshua 10:39 - And he took and to her king thereof and all the cities thereof and they smote them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein he left none remaining as he had done to Hebron as he had done to Debir and to her king as he had done also to Libnah and to her king

  • Joshua 11:11 - And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword utterly destroying them there was not any left to breathe Hazor and he burnt with fire

  • Joshua 20:3 - may flee That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly thither and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood

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