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 86:14 - O God the proud are risen against me and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul and have not set

  • Psalms 88:3 - is full of troubles For my soul and my life unto the grave draweth nigh

  • Psalms 88:14 - LORD why castest thou off my soul why hidest thou thy face

  • Psalms 89:48 - What man is he that liveth and shall not see death shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Selah

  • Psalms 94:17 - Unless the LORD had been my help had almost dwelt in silence my soul

  • Psalms 94:19 - In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul

  • Psalms 94:21 - They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous blood the innocent and condemn

  • Psalms 97:10 - Ye that love the LORD hate evil he preserveth the souls of his saints them out of the hand of the wicked he delivereth

  • Psalms 103:1 - Bless O my soul the LORD and all that is within name me bless his holy

  • Psalms 103:2 - Bless O my soul the LORD and forget not all his benefits

  • Psalms 103:22 - Bless the LORD all his works in all places of his dominion Bless O my soul the LORD

  • Psalms 104:1 - Bless O my soul O LORD O LORD my God great thou art very with honour and majesty thou art clothed

  • Psalms 104:35 - be consumed Let the sinners out of the earth and let the wicked be no more Bless O my soul thou the LORD Praise ye the LORD

  • Psalms 105:18 - they hurt with fetters Whose feet in iron was laid he

  • Psalms 105:22 - To bind his princes at his pleasure and teach his senators wisdom

  • Psalms 106:15 - And he gave them their request but sent leanness into their soul

  • Psalms 107:5 - Hungry and thirsty their soul fainted

  • Psalms 107:9 - For he satisfieth soul the longing soul the hungry and filleth with goodness

  • Psalms 107:18 - all manner of meat abhorreth Their soul and they draw near unto the gates of death

  • Psalms 107:26 - They mount up to the heaven they go down again to the depths their soul because of trouble is melted