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)


  • Psalms 33:20 - Our soul waiteth for the LORD he is our help and our shield

  • Psalms 34:2 - in the LORD shall make her boast My soul shall hear the humble thereof and be glad

  • Psalms 34:22 - redeemeth The LORD the soul of his servants in him shall be desolate and none of them that trust

  • Psalms 35:3 - Draw out also the spear and stop the way against them that persecute me say unto my soul I am thy salvation

  • Psalms 35:4 - Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt

  • Psalms 35:7 - For without cause have they hid in a pit for me their net For without cause they have digged for my soul

  • Psalms 35:9 - And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD it shall rejoice in his salvation

  • Psalms 35:12 - They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul

  • Psalms 35:13 - But as for me when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth I humbled with fasting my soul and my prayer into mine own bosom returned

  • Psalms 35:17 - Lord how long wilt thou look on rescue my soul from their destructions from the lions my darling

  • Psalms 35:25 - Let them not say in their hearts Ah so would Let them not say We have swallowed him up

  • Psalms 38:12 - lay snares They also that seek after my life for me and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things deceits all the day and imagine

  • Psalms 40:14 - Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil

  • Psalms 41:2 - The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the earth and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies

  • Psalms 41:4 - I said LORD be merciful unto me heal my soul for I have sinned

  • Psalms 42:1 - As the hart panteth brooks after the water my soul panteth after thee O God

  • Psalms 42:2 - thirsteth My soul God God for the living when shall I come and appear before God

  • Psalms 42:4 - When I remember these things I pour out my soul in me for I had gone with the multitude I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise with a multitude that kept holyday

  • Psalms 42:5 - Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted in me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance

  • Psalms 42:6 - O my God my soul is cast down within me therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of the Hermonites from the hill Mizar