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)


  • Leviticus 23:27 - Also on the tenth month day of this seventh there shall be a day of atonement convocation it shall be an holy unto you and ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD

  • Leviticus 23:29 - For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day he shall be cut off from among his people

  • Leviticus 23:30 - And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day will I destroy And whatsoever soul from among his people

  • Leviticus 23:32 - It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest and ye shall afflict your souls in the ninth day of the month at even at even at even shall ye celebrate It shall be unto you a sabbath

  • Leviticus 24:17 - And he that killeth any man be put to death be put to death

  • Leviticus 24:18 - And he that killeth beast for beast a beast shall make it good beast beast

  • Leviticus 26:11 - And I will set my tabernacle among shall not abhor you and my soul

  • Leviticus 26:15 - my statutes And if ye shall despise my judgments abhor or if your soul so that ye will not do all my commandments but that ye break my covenant

  • Leviticus 26:16 - I also will do this unto you I will even appoint over you terror consumption and the burning ague that shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart and ye shall sow in vain your seed shall eat for your enemies

  • Leviticus 26:30 - And I will destroy your high places and cut down your images and cast upon the carcases upon the carcases of your idols shall abhor and my soul

  • Leviticus 26:43 - The land also shall be left of them and shall enjoy her sabbaths while she lieth desolate of them and shall enjoy of the punishment of their iniquity because because my judgments they despised my statutes abhorred and because their soul

  • Leviticus 27:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When a man shall make a singular vow by thy estimation the persons shall be for the LORD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Numbers 5:2 - Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper and every one that hath an issue and whosoever is defiled by the dead

  • Numbers 5:6 - Speak unto the children of Israel When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the LORD be guilty and that person

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

  • 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

  • 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