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 130:5 - I wait for the LORD I wait my soul and in his word do I hope

  • Psalms 130:6 - My soul waiteth for the Lord I say more than they that watch for the morning I say more than they that watch for the morning

  • Psalms 131:2 - Surely I have behaved and quieted my soul as a child that is weaned of his mother as a child that is weaned my soul

  • Psalms 138:3 - In the day when I cried thou answeredst me and strengthenedst in my soul me with strength

  • Psalms 139:14 - I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well

  • Psalms 141:8 - the Lord But mine eyes in thee is my trust destitute not my soul

  • Psalms 142:4 - I looked on my right hand and beheld but there was no man that would know failed me refuge me no man cared for my soul

  • Psalms 142:7 - Bring out of prison my soul that I may praise thy name shall compass me about the righteous for thou shalt deal bountifully

  • Psalms 143:3 - hath persecuted For the enemy my soul down to the ground my life he hath made me to dwell in darkness dead as those that have been long

  • Psalms 143:6 - I stretch forth my hands unto thee my soul land thirsteth after thee as a thirsty Selah

  • Psalms 143:8 - Cause me to hear in the morning thy lovingkindness for in thee do I trust cause me to know the way wherein for I lift up my soul

  • Psalms 143:11 - for thy name's me O LORD Quicken sake for thy righteousness sake bring out of trouble my soul

  • Psalms 143:12 - And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies and destroy all them that afflict my soul for I am thy servant

  • Psalms 146:1 - Praise ye the LORD Praise O my soul the LORD

  • Ruth 4:15 - And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy daughter in law which loveth hath born thee which is better to thee than seven sons

  • Song of Solomon 1:7 - Tell loveth me O thou whom my soul where where thou feedest where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions

  • Song of Solomon 3:1 - on my bed By night I sought loveth him whom my soul I sought him but I found

  • Song of Solomon 3:2 - I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and in the broad ways I sought loveth him whom my soul I sought him but I found

  • Song of Solomon 3:3 - found The watchmen that go about the city loveth ye him whom my soul me to whom I said Saw

  • Song of Solomon 3:4 - It was but a little that I passed from them but I found loveth him whom my soul I held him and would not let him go until I had brought house him into my mother's and into the chamber of her that conceived