H5315 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)


  • Lamentations 5:9 - with the peril of our lives We gat our bread because of the sword of the wilderness

  • 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

  • Leviticus 5:15 - If a soul commit a trespass and sin through ignorance in the holy things of the LORD then he shall bring for a trespass offering of the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks with thy estimation of silver after the shekel after the shekel in the holy things for a trespass offering

  • Leviticus 5:17 - And if a soul sin and commit any by the commandments of the LORD and commit though he wist it not yet is he guilty and shall bear his iniquity

  • Judges 5:18 - Zebulun were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death and Naphtali in the high places of the field

  • 1 Chronicles 5:21 - And they took away their cattle of their camels and fifty thousand and of sheep an hundred and fifty thousand and of asses thousand and of men an hundred thousand

  • Judges 5:21 - The river Kishon swept them away The river that ancient The river Kishon thou hast trodden down O my soul strength

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

  • Ecclesiastes 6:2 - A man hath given to whom God riches wealth and honour so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth giveth him not power to whom God eateth A man eateth it this is vanity disease and it is an evil

  • Leviticus 6:2 - If a soul sin and commit a trespass against the LORD and lie his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep or in fellowship or in a thing taken away by violence or hath deceived his neighbour

  • Ecclesiastes 6:3 - beget If a man an hundred of his years be many children and live be many so that the days of his years and his soul be not filled is better and also that he have no burial I say is better that an untimely birth

  • Psalms 6:3 - My soul vexed is also sore but thou O LORD

  • Psalms 6:4 - Return O LORD deliver my soul oh save me for thy mercies

  • Deuteronomy 6:5 - And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might

  • Numbers 6:6 - All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD body at no dead he shall come

  • Ecclesiastes 6:7 - All the labour of man is for his mouth and yet the appetite is not filled

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

  • Micah 6:7 - be pleased Will the LORD with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of rivers of oil shall I give my firstborn for my transgression the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul

  • Amos 6:8 - hath sworn The Lord GOD by himself saith the LORD the God of hosts I abhor the excellency of Jacob his palaces and hate therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein

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

  • Ecclesiastes 6:9 - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire this is also vanity and vexation of spirit

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

  • Numbers 6:11 - shall offer And the priest and the other for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and make an atonement for him for that he sinned by the dead and shall hallow his head that same day

  • Song of Solomon 6:12 - Or ever I was aware my soul made me like the chariots

  • 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

  • Proverbs 6:16 - These six hate things doth the LORD yea seven are an abomination unto him

  • Proverbs 6:26 - For by means of and the adulteress a whorish a man is brought to a piece of bread and the adulteress life for the precious will hunt

  • Proverbs 6:30 - Men do not despise a thief if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry

  • Proverbs 6:32 - But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding it destroyeth his own soul he that doeth

  • 2 Chronicles 6:38 - If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity whither they have carried them captives and pray toward in the land which thou gavest unto their fathers and toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house which I have built for thy name

  • Micah 7:1 - Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits as the grapegleanings of the vintage there is no cluster to eat the firstripe fruit desired my soul

  • Psalms 7:2 - Lest he tear like a lion my soul rending it in pieces while there is none to deliver

  • Esther 7:3 - answered Then Esther the queen and said If I have found favour in thy sight O king O king and if it please be given let my life me at my petition and my people at my request

  • Micah 7:3 - That they may do evil with both hands earnestly the prince asketh and the judge asketh for a reward and the great man he uttereth his mischievous desire so they wrap it up

  • Psalms 7:5 - persecute Let the enemy my soul and take it yea let him tread down upon the earth my life mine honour in the dust and lay Selah

  • Esther 7:7 - And the king arising in his wrath from the banquet of wine garden went into the palace and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen for he saw determined that there was evil And the king

  • 2 Kings 7:7 - Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight and left their tents and their horses and their asses even the camp and fled for their 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

  • Leviticus 7:18 - at all And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings day on the third it shall not be accepted unto him that offereth neither shall it be imputed it it shall be an abomination and the soul at all his iniquity of it shall bear

  • Ezekiel 7:19 - their silver in the streets They shall cast and their gold shall be removed their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD their souls they shall not satisfy their bowels neither fill because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity

  • Leviticus 7:20 - But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings that pertain unto the LORD having his uncleanness shall be cut off But the soul from his people

  • Leviticus 7:21 - Moreover the soul that shall touch or any unclean any unclean of man beast or any unclean or any abominable or any unclean thing and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which pertain unto the LORD shall be cut off Moreover the soul from his people

  • Proverbs 7:23 - strike Till a dart through his liver hasteth as a bird to the snare and knoweth not that it is for his life

  • Leviticus 7:25 - For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD it shall be cut off even the soul For whosoever eateth from his people

  • Leviticus 7:27 - any manner Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood shall be cut off Whatsoever soul from his people

  • Ecclesiastes 7:28 - seeketh Which yet my soul among all those have I not found man not one among a thousand among all those have I not found but a woman among all those have I not found

  • Esther 8:11 - granted Wherein the king the Jews which were in every city which were in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life to destroy to slay and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them both little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for a prey

  • Proverbs 8:36 - But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul all they that hate me love death

  • 1 Kings 8:48 - And so return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies which led them away captive and pray unto thee toward in the land which thou gavest unto their fathers the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy ~

  • Genesis 9:4 - But flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof shall ye not eat

  • 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

  • Genesis 9:5 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require and at the hand of every beast will I require and at the hand of man and at the hand of every man's brother will I require of your lives of man

  • Numbers 9:6 - And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man that they could not keep the passover on that day and they came and before Moses and before Aaron on that day

  • Numbers 9:7 - said And those unto him We are defiled by the dead body of a man wherefore are we kept back that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel

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

  • Genesis 9:10 - creature And with every living that is with you of the fowl of the cattle And with every living of the earth with you from all that go out of the ark And with every living of the earth

  • Numbers 9:10 - Speak unto the children of Israel saying If any If any shall be unclean by reason of a dead body or be in a journey afar off of you or of your posterity yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD

  • Genesis 9:12 - said And God This is the token of the covenant which I make creature between me and you and every living generations that is with you for perpetual

  • Numbers 9:13 - But the man that is clean and is not in a journey and forbeareth to keep the passover shall be cut off even the same soul from among his people not the offering of the LORD because he brought in his appointed season his sin shall bear But the man

  • Genesis 9:15 - And I will remember my covenant creature which is between me and you and every living all flesh shall no more and the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh

  • 2 Kings 9:15 - was returned Joram But king to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds had given which the Syrians him when he fought with Hazael But king of Syria said And Jehu If it be your minds then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to tell in Jezreel

  • Esther 9:16 - But the other Jews provinces that were in the king's gathered themselves together and stood for their lives and had rest from their enemies and slew of their foes and five seventy thousand on the prey but they laid not their hands

  • Genesis 9:16 - And the bow shall be in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember covenant the everlasting and God and creature every living of all flesh that is upon the earth

  • Judges 9:17 - fought For my father for you and adventured his life far and delivered you out of the hand of Midian

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

  • 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

  • Esther 9:31 - To confirm these days of Purim in their times To confirm appointed according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen To confirm for themselves and for their seed the matters of the fastings and their cry

  • 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

  • Proverbs 10:3 - to famish The LORD the soul of the righteous the substance of the wicked but he casteth away

  • Psalms 10:3 - boasteth For the wicked desire of his heart's the covetous and blesseth abhorreth whom the LORD

  • Deuteronomy 10:12 - And now Israel the LORD thy God require of thee but to fear the LORD thy God in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul

  • Judges 10:16 - And they put away gods the strange from among them and served the LORD was grieved and his soul for the misery of Israel

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 10:22 - with threescore and ten persons went down Thy fathers into Egypt hath made and now the LORD thy God thee as the stars of heaven for multitude

  • 2 Kings 10:24 - And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings Jehu appointed without fourscore If any and said If any escape If any And when they went in into your hands he that letteth him go his life he that letteth him go his life

  • 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

  • Psalms 11:1 - In the LORD put I my trust how say ye to my soul Flee to your mountain as a bird

  • Psalms 11:5 - The LORD the righteous trieth but the wicked and him that loveth violence hateth his soul

  • Numbers 11:6 - But now our soul is dried away there is nothing at all beside this manna before our eyes

  • Zechariah 11:8 - also I cut off Three shepherds month in one lothed and my soul and my soul also abhorred

  • Leviticus 11:10 - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers of all that move in the waters thing and of any living in the waters they shall be an abomination

  • 2 Samuel 11:11 - said And Uriah unto David The ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents and my lord Joab and the servants and my lord in the open fields are encamped shall I then go into mine house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife as thou livest as thou livest and as thy soul I will not do this thing

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 11:13 - And it shall come to pass if ye shall hearken And it shall come to pass if ye shall hearken unto my commandments which I command you this day to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul

  • Proverbs 11:17 - doeth good to his own soul man The merciful troubleth his own flesh but he that is cruel

  • Deuteronomy 11:18 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes

  • 1 Chronicles 11:19 - And said forbid My God it These things did this thing the blood of these men not drink for with the jeopardy of their lives for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it Therefore he would not drink it These things did these three mightiest

  • 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

  • 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

  • Proverbs 11:25 - soul The liberal shall be made fat and he that watereth shall be watered

  • Proverbs 11:30 - The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth souls is wise

  • 1 Kings 11:37 - And I will take thee and thou shalt reign desireth according to all that thy soul and shalt be king over Israel

  • Leviticus 11:43 - Ye shall not make yourselves with any creeping thing that creepeth with them that ye should be defiled neither shall ye make yourselves unclean

  • Leviticus 11:44 - For I am the LORD your God ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves and ye shall be holy and ye shall be holy neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth