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)


  • Lamentations 3:25 - is good The LORD unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh

  • Lamentations 3:51 - Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city

  • Lamentations 3:58 - thou hast pleaded O Lord the causes of my soul thou hast redeemed my life

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

  • Leviticus 2:1 - And when any will offer his offering a meat unto the LORD shall be of fine flour his offering and he shall pour oil upon it and put frankincense

  • Leviticus 4:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel saying If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD and shall do and shall do against any of them

  • Leviticus 4:27 - one And if any sin through ignorance people of the common concerning things which ought not to be done And if any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done and be guilty

  • Leviticus 5:1 - And if a soul sin and hear the voice of swearing and is a witness whether he hath seen whether or known of it if he do not utter it then he shall bear his iniquity

  • Leviticus 5:2 - Or if a soul touch thing any unclean or a carcase beast any unclean or a carcase cattle any unclean or a carcase creeping things any unclean and if it be hidden any unclean and guilty

  • Leviticus 5:4 - Or if a soul swear pronouncing with his lips to do evil or to do good pronouncing whatsoever it be that a man with an oath and it be hid from him when he knoweth of it then he shall be guilty in one

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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