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)


  • Psalms 19:7 - The law of the LORD is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the LORD is sure making wise the simple

  • Leviticus 19:8 - Therefore every one that eateth his iniquity it shall bear the hallowed thing of the LORD because he hath profaned shall be cut off and that soul from among his people

  • Proverbs 19:8 - He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul he that keepeth understanding shall find good

  • Jeremiah 19:9 - And I will cause them to eat and the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters every one and the flesh of his friend And I will cause them to eat in the siege and straitness shall straiten wherewith their enemies and they that seek their lives

  • 1 Kings 19:10 - And he said I have been very I have been very for the LORD God of hosts have forsaken thy covenant for the children of Israel thine altars thrown down thy prophets and slain with the sword and I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away

  • Isaiah 19:10 - in the purposes And they shall be broken thereof all that make sluices and ponds for fish

  • Deuteronomy 19:11 - But if any man hate his neighbour and lie in wait for him and rise up against him and smite him mortally that he die and fleeth into one cities of these

  • 1 Samuel 19:11 - also sent Saul messengers house David's to watch him and to slay him in the morning told David's and Michal wife him saying If thou save not thy life to night to morrow him and to slay

  • Numbers 19:11 - He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days

  • Numbers 19:13 - Whosoever toucheth that is dead and that soul of any man that is dead and purifieth the tabernacle of the LORD not himself defileth shall be cut off and that soul from Israel because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him he shall be unclean his uncleanness

  • 1 Kings 19:14 - And he said I have been very I have been very for the LORD God of hosts have forsaken thy covenant because the children of Israel thine altars thrown down thy prophets and slain with the sword and I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away

  • Proverbs 19:15 - Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep soul and an idle shall suffer hunger

  • Proverbs 19:16 - He that keepeth the commandment He that keepeth his own soul but he that despiseth his ways shall die

  • Genesis 19:17 - And it came to pass when they had brought them forth abroad that he said Escape for thy life look not behind thee neither stay thou in all the plain to the mountain Escape lest thou be consumed

  • Numbers 19:18 - shall take hyssop and dip it in the water person And a clean and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and upon the persons that were there and upon him that touched a bone or one slain or one dead or a grave

  • Proverbs 19:18 - Chasten thy son while there is hope for his crying spare and let not thy soul

  • Genesis 19:19 - hath found Behold now thy servant grace in thy sight and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life and I cannot escape to the mountain take lest some evil me and I die

  • Genesis 19:20 - Behold now this city is near to flee unto and it is a little one Oh let me escape is a little one unto and it shall live and my soul

  • Numbers 19:20 - But the man because he hath defiled and shall not purify shall be cut off himself that soul from among the congregation the sanctuary of the LORD because he hath defiled the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him he is unclean

  • Deuteronomy 19:21 - shall not pity And thine eye but life but life And thine eye And thine eye for tooth for tooth for hand for hand foot foot

  • Numbers 19:22 - person toucheth And whatsoever the unclean it shall be unclean and the soul person toucheth it shall be unclean until even

  • Leviticus 19:28 - cuttings for the dead Ye shall not make in your flesh any any marks Ye shall not make upon you I am the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 20:1 - fled And David from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan What have I done what is mine iniquity and what is my sin before thy father that he seeketh my life

  • Proverbs 20:2 - is as the roaring of a lion The fear of a king whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul

  • 1 Samuel 20:3 - sware And David and he saith certainly certainly Thy father that I have found grace in thine eyes and he saith certainly Let not Jonathan this lest he be grieved but truly liveth as the LORD liveth and as thy soul there is but a step between me and death

  • Joshua 20:3 - may flee That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly thither and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood

  • 1 Samuel 20:4 - Then said Jonathan unto David Then said Whatsoever thy soul I will even do

  • Leviticus 20:6 - And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits after wizards to go a whoring after them I will even set my face And the soul and will cut him off from among his people

  • Joshua 20:9 - These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the stranger that sojourneth among might flee them that whosoever killeth any person at unawares thither and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the congregation

  • Jeremiah 20:13 - Sing unto the LORD praise unto the LORD for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers

  • 1 Samuel 20:17 - again And Jonathan to swear caused David because he loved because he loved his own soul him for he loved

  • Leviticus 20:25 - Ye shall therefore put difference beasts and clean and between unclean fowls and between unclean and clean abominable and ye shall not make your souls beasts fowls or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground Ye shall therefore put difference from you as unclean

  • 1 Kings 20:31 - said And his servants unto him Behold now we have heard kings of the house of Israel kings are merciful let us I pray thee put sackcloth on our loins and ropes upon our heads and go out kings of Israel peradventure he will save thy life

  • 1 Kings 20:32 - So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads and came to the king of Israel And he said Thy servant Benhadad And he said I pray thee let me live And he said Is he yet alive he is my brother

  • 1 Kings 20:39 - And as the king passed by he cried And as the king and he said Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle a man turned aside and brought a man and he said Keep a man he be missing he be missing be for his life be for his life a talent of silver or else thou shalt pay

  • 1 Kings 20:42 - And he said And he said the LORD Because thou hast let go a man whom I appointed to utter destruction out of thy hand shall go for his life shall go for his life and thy people and thy people

  • Leviticus 21:1 - Speak And the LORD unto Moses Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron Speak for the dead unto them There shall none be defiled among his people

  • Numbers 21:4 - And they journeyed Hor from mount because of the way sea of the Red to compass the land of Edom was much discouraged and the soul of the people because of the way

  • Numbers 21:5 - spake And the people against God and against Moses Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness bread neither is there any water and our soul loatheth bread this light

  • Jeremiah 21:7 - And afterward saith the LORD I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people and such as are left in this city from the pestilence from the sword and from the famine and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those that seek their life and he shall smite them with the edge from the sword he shall not spare them neither have pity nor have mercy

  • Jeremiah 21:9 - He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence but he that goeth out and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you he shall live and his life shall be unto him for a prey

  • Proverbs 21:10 - The soul of the wicked desireth evil findeth no favour in his eyes his neighbour

  • Leviticus 21:11 - body to any dead Neither shall he go in himself for his father or for his mother nor defile

  • Deuteronomy 21:14 - And it shall be if thou have no delight in her then thou shalt let her go whither she will but thou shalt not sell but thou shalt not sell for money thou shalt not make merchandise of her because thou hast humbled

  • Exodus 21:23 - And if any mischief follow then thou shalt give for life for life

  • Proverbs 21:23 - Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue Whoso keepeth from troubles his soul

  • Job 21:25 - And another dieth of his soul in the bitterness and never eateth with pleasure

  • Exodus 21:30 - on him a sum of money If there be laid then he shall give for the ransom of his life If there be laid

  • 1 Samuel 22:2 - gathered And every one that was in distress And every one that was in debt And every one that was discontented themselves unto him and he became a captain over them and there were with him about four hundred And every one

  • Leviticus 22:3 - Say among your generations unto them Whosoever that goeth he be of all your seed unto the holy things hallow which the children of Israel I am the LORD having his uncleanness shall be cut off upon him that soul from my presence I am the LORD

  • Leviticus 22:4 - What man soever What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or hath a running issue of the holy things he shall not eat until he be clean And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead What man soever goeth of the seed

  • Joshua 22:5 - and to keep But take diligent to do his commandments and the law charged which Moses the servant of the LORD you to love of the LORD your God in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul

  • Proverbs 22:5 - Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward he that doth keep his soul shall be far

  • Leviticus 22:6 - The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even and shall not eat of the holy things unless he wash his flesh with water

  • Leviticus 22:11 - But if the priest buy any soul with his money he shall eat of it and he that is born in his house he shall eat of his meat

  • 1 Chronicles 22:19 - Now set your heart and your soul to seek of the LORD God arise that is to be built ye the sanctuary of the LORD God to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD vessels and the holy God into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD

  • Psalms 22:20 - Deliver from the sword my soul from the power of the dog my darling

  • 1 Samuel 22:22 - said And David unto Abiathar I knew it that day when Doeg the Edomite tell tell Saul I have occasioned the death of all the persons house of thy father's

  • 1 Samuel 22:23 - Abide thou with me fear not for he that seeketh my life not for he that seeketh my life but with me thou shalt be in safeguard

  • Proverbs 22:23 - For the LORD will plead their cause and spoil and spoil the soul

  • Ezekiel 22:25 - There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst lion thereof like a roaring ravening the prey souls they have devoured the treasure and precious things they have taken widows they have made her many in the midst

  • Jeremiah 22:25 - And I will give and into the hand of them that seek thy life and into the hand thou fearest of them whose face and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans

  • Proverbs 22:25 - Lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul

  • Deuteronomy 22:26 - But unto the damsel thou shalt do him even so is this matter But unto the damsel no sin worthy of death riseth for as when a man against his neighbour and slayeth him even so is this matter

  • Ezekiel 22:27 - Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and to destroy souls to get dishonest gain

  • Jeremiah 22:27 - But to the land whereunto they desire thither shall they not return thither shall they not return

  • Psalms 22:29 - shall eat and worship All they that be fat upon earth before shall bow all they that go down to the dust his own soul him and none can keep alive

  • Proverbs 23:2 - And put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite

  • 2 Kings 23:3 - stood And the king by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul to perform the words a covenant that were written in this book stood And all the people a covenant

  • Psalms 23:3 - my soul He restoreth he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's

  • Proverbs 23:7 - For as he thinketh in his heart so is he Eat and drink saith he to thee but his heart

  • Genesis 23:8 - And he communed with them saying If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight hear me and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar

  • Exodus 23:9 - a stranger Also thou shalt not oppress for ye know the heart a stranger seeing a stranger in the land of Egypt

  • Numbers 23:10 - Who can count the dust of Jacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last

  • Joshua 23:11 - heed Take good therefore unto yourselves that ye love the LORD your God

  • Job 23:13 - But he is in one mind and who can turn him and what his soul desireth even that he doeth

  • Joshua 23:14 - I am going And behold this day the way of all the earth and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls hath failed thing that not one thing of all the good spake which the LORD your God concerning you all are come to pass hath failed thing that not one

  • Proverbs 23:14 - him with the rod Thou shalt beat his soul from hell and shalt deliver

  • 1 Samuel 23:15 - saw And David was come out that Saul to seek his life And David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood

  • Ezekiel 23:17 - came And the Babylonians to her into the bed of love and she was polluted her with their whoredom and she was polluted was alienated with them and her mind

  • 2 Samuel 23:17 - And he said Be it far from me O LORD it These things did this is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives therefore he would not drink it These things did these three mighty men

  • Ezekiel 23:18 - So she discovered her whoredoms So she discovered her nakedness was alienated from her like as my mind was alienated from her like as my mind from her sister

  • 1 Samuel 23:20 - according to all the desire of thy soul Now therefore O king come down come down and our part shall be to deliver hand Now therefore O king

  • Ezekiel 23:22 - Therefore O Aholibah thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will raise up thy lovers is alienated against thee from whom thy mind and I will bring them against thee on every side

  • Deuteronomy 23:24 - When thou comest vineyard into thy neighbour's then thou mayest eat grapes at thine own pleasure thy fill any in thy vessel but thou shalt not put

  • 2 Kings 23:25 - before And like unto him was there no king him that turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the law of Moses neither after him arose

  • 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

  • Ezekiel 23:28 - For thus saith the Lord Behold I will deliver into the hand of them whom thou hatest into the hand is alienated of them from whom thy mind

  • 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

  • Psalms 24:4 - He that hath clean hands and a pure heart who hath not lifted up unto vanity his soul nor sworn deceitfully

  • Deuteronomy 24:6 - No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone a man's life No man shall take

  • Deuteronomy 24:7 - be found If a man stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel and maketh merchandise of him or selleth shall die him then that thief and thou shalt put evil from among

  • 1 Samuel 24:11 - Moreover my father see see the skirt of thy robe in mine hand for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe and killed thee not know see in mine hand that there is neither evil nor transgression and I have not sinned against thee yet thou huntest my soul to take

  • Job 24:12 - from out of the city Men groan and the soul of the wounded crieth out yet God layeth not folly

  • Proverbs 24:12 - If thou sayest Behold we knew it not doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it and he that keepeth thy soul Behold we knew it and shall not he render to every man according to his works

  • Proverbs 24:14 - So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul when thou hast found it then there shall be a reward and thy expectation shall not be cut off

  • Deuteronomy 24:15 - At his day thou shalt give him his hire go down neither shall the sun upon it for he is poor and setteth his heart upon it lest he cry against thee unto the LORD and it be sin

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