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)


  • Leviticus 11:46 - This is the law of the beasts and of the fowl and of every creature and of every living that moveth in the waters and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth

  • Judges 12:3 - And when I saw that ye delivered me not I put my life in my hands and passed over against the children of Ammon delivered and the LORD them into my hand wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day to fight

  • Exodus 12:4 - too little And if the household be for the lamb take let him and his neighbour next And if the household it according to the number of the souls every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb

  • 2 Kings 12:4 - said And Jehoash to the priests All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD All the money that passeth into any man's All the money that every man is set at All the money that cometh heart into any man's that is brought into the house of the LORD

  • Genesis 12:5 - took And Abram Sarai his wife and Lot son his brother's and all their substance that they had gathered and the souls that they had gotten in Haran and they went forth and into the land of Canaan they came and into the land of Canaan

  • Jeremiah 12:7 - I have forsaken mine house I have left mine heritage I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies

  • Job 12:10 - In whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind

  • Proverbs 12:10 - man regardeth A righteous the life of his beast but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel

  • Genesis 12:13 - Say I pray thee thou art my sister that it may be well shall live with me for thy sake and my soul because of thee

  • Deuteronomy 12:15 - lusteth after whatsoever thy soul Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given in all thy gates thee the unclean and the clean and eat thereof as of the roebuck and as of the hart

  • Exodus 12:15 - Seven day unleavened bread for whosoever eateth even day from the first ye shall put away leaven out of your houses for whosoever eateth leavened bread shall be cut that soul off from Israel day from the first day until the seventh

  • Exodus 12:16 - day And in the first convocation there shall be an holy day and in the seventh convocation there shall be an holy to you no manner of work shall be done in them save must eat that which every man shall be done

  • Exodus 12:19 - Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses for whosoever eateth shall be cut off even that soul from the congregation of Israel whether he be a stranger or born in the land

  • Deuteronomy 12:20 - shall enlarge When the LORD thy God thy border as he hath promised thee and thou shalt say I will eat flesh longeth because thy soul I will eat flesh lusteth after because thy soul I will eat flesh

  • Deuteronomy 12:21 - there be too far If the place hath chosen which the LORD thy God to put his name from thee then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock hath given which the LORD thee as I have commanded thee and thou shalt eat in thy gates lusteth after whatsoever thy soul

  • Deuteronomy 12:23 - Only be sure and thou mayest not eat for the blood for the blood is the life and thou mayest not eat is the life with the flesh

  • Proverbs 13:2 - by the fruit of his mouth A man shall eat good but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence

  • Psalms 13:2 - How long shall I take counsel in my soul having sorrow in my heart daily be exalted how long shall mine enemy

  • Deuteronomy 13:3 - Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams proveth for the LORD your God you to know whether ye love for the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul

  • Proverbs 13:3 - He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction

  • Proverbs 13:4 - desireth The soul of the sluggard The soul of the diligent shall be made fat

  • Deuteronomy 13:6 - entice If thy brother or thy son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend which is as thine own soul thee secretly saying and serve gods other which thou hast not known thou nor thy fathers

  • Proverbs 13:8 - The ransom life of a man's are his riches but the poor heareth not rebuke

  • Job 13:14 - Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth my life and put in mine hand

  • Jeremiah 13:17 - But if ye will not hear in secret places shall weep it my soul for your pride shall weep shall weep and run down and mine eye with tears is carried away captive flock because the LORD'S

  • Ezekiel 13:18 - And say And say the Lord GOD Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature Will ye hunt souls souls Will ye hunt of my people souls alive alive

  • Ezekiel 13:19 - And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread that should not die the souls that should not die alive the souls alive by your lying me among my people that hear your lies

  • Proverbs 13:19 - The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil

  • Ezekiel 13:20 - Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against your pillows wherewith ye that ye hunt and will let the souls to make them fly and I will tear them from your arms go and will let the souls wherewith ye that ye hunt and will let the souls to make them fly

  • Proverbs 13:25 - The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul but the belly of the wicked shall want

  • 2 Samuel 14:7 - is risen And behold the whole family against thine handmaid and they said Deliver him that smote his brother that we may kill him for the life his brother whom he slew and we will destroy the heir also and so they shall quench my coal and shall not leave which is left to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth

  • Proverbs 14:10 - The heart knoweth bitterness his own with his joy doth not intermeddle and a stranger

  • Ezekiel 14:14 - Though these three men were in it Noah Daniel and Job by their righteousness they should deliver but their own souls saith the Lord

  • 2 Samuel 14:14 - For we must needs For we must needs and are as water spilt on the ground which cannot be gathered up again respect neither doth God any person yet doth he devise means be not expelled be not expelled

  • 2 Samuel 14:19 - and said And the king Is not the hand Joab answered with thee in all this And the woman and said liveth As thy soul from ought that my lord And the king can turn to the right hand or to the left hath spoken from ought that my lord And the king for thy servant Joab he bade me and he put in the mouth of thine handmaid all these words

  • Jeremiah 14:19 - Hast thou utterly Hast thou utterly Judah Zion lothed hath thy soul why hast thou smitten of healing for us we looked for peace and there is no good and for the time of healing and behold trouble

  • Ezekiel 14:20 - Though Noah Daniel and Job were in it as I live saith the Lord GOD nor neither son nor daughter they shall but deliver by their righteousness they shall but deliver their own souls

  • Genesis 14:21 - said And the king of Sodom unto Abram Give me the persons the goods and take

  • Job 14:22 - But his flesh upon him shall have pain and his soul within him shall mourn

  • Proverbs 14:25 - delivereth souls witness A true witness speaketh lies but a deceitful

  • Deuteronomy 14:26 - And thou shalt bestow that money lusteth after for whatsoever thy soul for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink desireth for whatsoever thy soul and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God and thou shalt rejoice thou and thine household

  • Jeremiah 15:1 - Then said the LORD stood unto me Though Moses and Samuel before me yet my mind could not be toward this people cast them out before and let them go forth

  • Isaiah 15:4 - shall cry And Heshbon and Elealeh even unto Jahaz shall be heard their voice therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out his life shall be grievous

  • Exodus 15:9 - said The enemy I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoil shall be satisfied my lust upon them I will draw my sword shall destroy my hand

  • Jeremiah 15:9 - languisheth She that hath borne seven she hath given up the ghost is gone her sun down while it was yet day she hath been ashamed and confounded and the residue to the sword of them will I deliver before their enemies saith the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 15:12 - And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul

  • Numbers 15:27 - soul And if any sin through ignorance then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering

  • Numbers 15:28 - shall make an atonement And the priest for the soul by ignorance when he sinneth that sinneth ignorantly before the LORD shall make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven

  • Numbers 15:30 - But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously or a stranger whether he be born in the land or a stranger the LORD the same reproacheth shall be cut off But the soul from among his people

  • Numbers 15:31 - the word of the LORD Because he hath despised his commandment and hath broken be cut off be cut off that soul his iniquity

  • Proverbs 15:32 - He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding

  • Job 16:4 - I also could speak as ye do if were in my soul's in my soul's stead I could heap up words against you and shake at mine head

  • Ezekiel 16:5 - pitied None eye thee to do any of these unto thee to have compassion upon thee but thou wast cast out in the open field to the lothing of thy person in the day that thou wast born

  • Psalms 16:10 - For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption

  • 2 Samuel 16:11 - hath bidden And David to Abishai and to all his servants Behold my son which came forth of my bowels seeketh my life how much more now may this Benjamite do it let him alone and let him curse hath bidden for the LORD

  • Exodus 16:16 - This is the thing which hath commanded the LORD Gather of it every man according to his eating an omer for every man according to the number of your persons of it every man which for them which are in his tents take

  • Judges 16:16 - And it came to pass when she pressed with her words him daily and urged was vexed him so that his soul unto death

  • Proverbs 16:17 - The highway of the upright is to depart from evil preserveth his soul he that keepeth his way

  • Proverbs 16:24 - are as an honeycomb words Pleasant sweet to the soul and health to the bones

  • Proverbs 16:26 - He that laboureth laboureth craveth for himself for his mouth

  • Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee and have diminished thine ordinary food and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee the daughters of the Philistines which are ashamed way of thy lewd

  • Leviticus 16:29 - And this shall be a statute for ever day of the month unto you that in the seventh on the tenth day of the month ye shall afflict your souls no work and do at all whether it be one of your own country or a stranger that sojourneth among

  • Judges 16:30 - said And Samson Let me die with the Philistines And he bowed himself with all his might fell and the house upon the lords and upon all the people Let me die Let me die at his death were more Let me die in his life

  • Leviticus 16:31 - It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute for ever

  • Numbers 16:38 - The censers of these sinners against their own souls let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar for they offered them before the LORD therefore they are hallowed and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel

  • 2 Samuel 17:8 - For said Hushai thou knowest and thy father is a man that they be mighty men and they be chafed in their minds as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field and thy father is a man of war and will not lodge with the people

  • Psalms 17:9 - From the wicked that oppress enemies me from my deadly who compass me about

  • Leviticus 17:10 - And whatsoever man And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among that eateth any manner of blood I will even set my face against that soul that eateth any manner of blood and will cut him off from among his people

  • Leviticus 17:11 - For the life of the flesh for it is the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar that maketh an atonement For the life for it is the blood For the life that maketh an atonement

  • Leviticus 17:12 - Therefore I said unto the children of Israel No soul of you shall eat blood neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among of you shall eat blood

  • Psalms 17:13 - Arise O LORD disappoint him cast him down deliver my soul from the wicked which is thy sword

  • Genesis 17:14 - And the uncircumcised man child whose is not circumcised flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off that soul from his people my covenant he hath broken

  • Leviticus 17:14 - For it is the life of all flesh is the blood For it is the life thereof therefore I said unto the children of Israel is the blood of all flesh Ye shall eat For it is the life of all flesh is the blood Ye shall eat it shall be cut off

  • Leviticus 17:15 - And every soul that eateth that which died of itself or that which was torn with beasts whether it be one of your own country or a stranger he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even then shall he be clean

  • Ezekiel 17:17 - army with his mighty company and great make Neither shall Pharaoh for him in the war by casting up mounts and building forts to cut off persons and great

  • 1 Kings 17:21 - And he stretched I pray thee let this child's three times and cried O LORD and said O LORD my God again soul I pray thee let this child's into him

  • Jeremiah 17:21 - Thus saith the LORD Take heed to yourselves and bear no burden day on the sabbath nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem

  • 1 Kings 17:22 - heard And the LORD the voice of Elijah again and the soul of the child into him and he revived

  • 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

  • Ezekiel 18:4 - Behold all souls Behold all souls of the father Behold all souls of the son Behold all souls that sinneth it shall die

  • Job 18:4 - He teareth himself in his anger be forsaken shall the earth be removed for thee and shall the rock out of his place

  • Deuteronomy 18:6 - and come And if a Levite from any of thy gates out of all Israel where he sojourned and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place shall choose which the LORD

  • Proverbs 18:7 - mouth A fool's is his destruction and his lips are the snare of his soul

  • 2 Samuel 18:13 - Otherwise I should have wrought against mine own life falsehood for there is no matter hid from the king and thou thyself wouldest have set

  • Ezekiel 18:20 - The soul that sinneth it shall die The son bear the iniquity neither shall the father neither shall the father bear the iniquity The son the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him and the wickedness of the wicked

  • Jeremiah 18:20 - be recompensed for good Shall evil for they have digged a pit for my soul Remember that I stood before thee to speak for good for them and to turn away thy wrath

  • Judges 18:25 - said And the children of Dan be heard unto him Let not thy voice run among us lest angry thy life upon thee and thou lose thy life thy life of thy household

  • Ezekiel 18:27 - man turneth away Again when the wicked from his wickedness and doeth and doeth that which is lawful and right his soul alive

  • Leviticus 18:29 - For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations them shall be cut off even the souls For whosoever shall commit from among their people

  • 1 Kings 19:2 - sent Then Jezebel a messenger unto Elijah saying do So let the gods to me and more about this time of them by to morrow also if I make as the life as the life of one

  • Job 19:2 - How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words

  • Proverbs 19:2 - be without knowledge Also that the soul it is not good and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth

  • 1 Kings 19:3 - And when he saw that he arose for his life and came to Beersheba which belongeth to Judah and left his servant

  • 1 Kings 19:4 - But he himself went into the wilderness journey a day's and came and sat down juniper tree under a and he requested for himself that he might die and said It is enough now O LORD take away for himself for I am not better than my fathers

  • 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

  • 2 Samuel 19:5 - came And Joab to the king into the house and said Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants have saved and the lives this day and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters and the lives of thy wives and the lives of thy concubines

  • Deuteronomy 19:6 - pursue Lest the avenger of the blood the slayer inasmuch as is hot his heart and overtake inasmuch as is long him because the way and slay him whereas he was not worthy of death inasmuch as he hated him not in time past

  • Jeremiah 19:7 - And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of them that seek their lives will I give and their carcases to be meat for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth