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)


  • 1 Kings 20:39 - And as the king passed by he cried And as the king and he said Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle a man turned aside and brought a man and he said Keep a man he be missing he be missing be for his life be for his life a talent of silver or else thou shalt pay

  • 1 Kings 20:42 - And he said And he said the LORD Because thou hast let go a man whom I appointed to utter destruction out of thy hand shall go for his life shall go for his life and thy people and thy people

  • 1 Samuel 1:10 - And she was in bitterness of soul and prayed unto the LORD and wept and wept

  • 1 Samuel 1:15 - answered And Hannah and said No my lord I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit neither wine nor strong drink I have drunk but have poured out my soul before the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 1:26 - And she said Oh my lord liveth as thy soul my lord I am the woman that stood by thee here praying unto the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 2:16 - said And if any man to burn to burn presently the fat and then take as much as thy soul said him Nay but thou shalt give and then take it by force

  • 1 Samuel 2:33 - And the man of thine whom I shall not cut off from mine altar shall be to consume thine eyes and to grieve thine heart and all the increase of thine house shall die And the man

  • 1 Samuel 2:35 - And I will raise me up priest a faithful according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind that shall do and I will build house a faithful and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever

  • 1 Samuel 17:55 - saw And when Saul David go forth against the Philistine he said Abner the captain of the host whose son is this youth Abner he said Abner liveth As thy soul O king I cannot tell

  • 1 Samuel 18:1 - And it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul him as his own soul and Jonathan was knit him as his own soul of David loved and Jonathan him as his own soul

  • 1 Samuel 18:3 - made Then Jonathan and David a covenant because he loved him as his own soul

  • 1 Samuel 19:5 - For he did put his life in his hand and slew the Philistine wrought and the LORD salvation a great for all Israel thou sawest it and didst rejoice wherefore then wilt thou sin blood against innocent to slay David without a cause

  • 1 Samuel 19:11 - also sent Saul messengers house David's to watch him and to slay him in the morning told David's and Michal wife him saying If thou save not thy life to night to morrow him and to slay

  • 1 Samuel 20:1 - fled And David from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan What have I done what is mine iniquity and what is my sin before thy father that he seeketh my life

  • 1 Samuel 20:3 - sware And David and he saith certainly certainly Thy father that I have found grace in thine eyes and he saith certainly Let not Jonathan this lest he be grieved but truly liveth as the LORD liveth and as thy soul there is but a step between me and death

  • 1 Samuel 20:4 - Then said Jonathan unto David Then said Whatsoever thy soul I will even do

  • 1 Samuel 20:17 - again And Jonathan to swear caused David because he loved because he loved his own soul him for he loved

  • 1 Samuel 22:2 - gathered And every one that was in distress And every one that was in debt And every one that was discontented themselves unto him and he became a captain over them and there were with him about four hundred And every one

  • 1 Samuel 22:22 - said And David unto Abiathar I knew it that day when Doeg the Edomite tell tell Saul I have occasioned the death of all the persons house of thy father's

  • 1 Samuel 22:23 - Abide thou with me fear not for he that seeketh my life not for he that seeketh my life but with me thou shalt be in safeguard