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);
2 Kings 4:30 - said And the mother of the child liveth As the LORD liveth and as thy soul I will not leave thee And he arose
2 Kings 7:7 - Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight and left their tents and their horses and their asses even the camp and fled for their life
2 Kings 9:15 - was returned Joram But king to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds had given which the Syrians him when he fought with Hazael But king of Syria said And Jehu If it be your minds then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to tell in Jezreel
2 Kings 10:24 - And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings Jehu appointed without fourscore If any and said If any escape If any And when they went in into your hands he that letteth him go his life he that letteth him go his life
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
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
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
2 Samuel 1:9 - He said unto me again Stand I pray thee upon me and slay is come me for anguish upon me because my life
2 Samuel 3:21 - said Abner And David I will arise and will gather unto my lord the king all Israel that they may make a league with thee and that thou mayest reign desireth over all that thine heart away And David Abner in peace
2 Samuel 4:8 - And they brought Behold the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron and said the king Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy which sought thy life hath and the LORD my lord the king avenged this day of Saul and of his seed
2 Samuel 4:9 - answered And David Rechab and Baanah his brother the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite and said liveth unto them As the LORD who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity
2 Samuel 5:8 - he shall be chief and captain Wherefore they said And David on that day and smiteth the Jebusites Whosoever getteth up to the gutter and the lame The blind that are hated soul And David he shall be chief and captain Wherefore they said The blind and the lame shall not come into the house
2 Samuel 11:11 - said And Uriah unto David The ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents and my lord Joab and the servants and my lord in the open fields are encamped shall I then go into mine house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife as thou livest as thou livest and as thy soul I will not do this thing
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
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
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
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
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
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