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 34:2 - in the LORD shall make her boast My soul shall hear the humble thereof and be glad

  • Genesis 34:3 - clave And his soul unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob and he loved the damsel and spake kindly the damsel

  • Genesis 34:8 - communed And Hamor with them saying of my son longeth The soul for your daughter I pray you give her him to wife

  • Jeremiah 34:16 - But ye turned and polluted my name But ye turned and caused every man his servant and caused every man and for handmaids whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure and brought them into subjection his servant and for handmaids

  • Jeremiah 34:20 - I will even give and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth

  • Jeremiah 34:21 - And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and into the hand army king of Babylon's which are gone up

  • Psalms 34:22 - redeemeth The LORD the soul of his servants in him shall be desolate and none of them that trust

  • 2 Chronicles 34:31 - stood And the king in his place and made a covenant before the LORD after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul to perform the words a covenant which are written in this book

  • Psalms 35:3 - Draw out also the spear and stop the way against them that persecute me say unto my soul I am thy salvation

  • Psalms 35:4 - Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt

  • Psalms 35:7 - For without cause have they hid in a pit for me their net For without cause they have digged for my soul

  • Psalms 35:9 - And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD it shall rejoice in his salvation

  • Numbers 35:11 - Then ye shall appoint to be cities to be cities of refuge may flee for you that the slayer thither which killeth any person at unawares

  • Psalms 35:12 - They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul

  • Psalms 35:13 - But as for me when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth I humbled with fasting my soul and my prayer into mine own bosom returned

  • Numbers 35:15 - both for the children of Israel and for the stranger and for the sojourner among These six cities shall be a refuge may flee them that every one that killeth any person unawares

  • Psalms 35:17 - Lord how long wilt thou look on rescue my soul from their destructions from the lions my darling

  • Genesis 35:18 - was in departing And it came to pass as her soul for she died called his name Benoni but his father called him Benjamin

  • Psalms 35:25 - Let them not say in their hearts Ah so would Let them not say We have swallowed him up

  • Numbers 35:30 - Whoso killeth against any person by the mouth of witnesses shall be put to death shall be put to death of witnesses but one shall not testify against any person to cause him to die

  • Numbers 35:31 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer which is guilty but he shall be surely but he shall be surely but he shall be surely

  • Ezekiel 36:5 - Therefore thus saith the Lord Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and against all Idumea which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart with despiteful minds to cast it out for a prey

  • Genesis 36:6 - took And Esau his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the persons of his house and his cattle and all his beasts and all his substance which he had got in the land of Canaan in the land from the face Jacob of his brother

  • Job 36:14 - die in youth They and their life is among the unclean

  • Jeremiah 37:9 - Thus saith the LORD Deceive not yourselves Thus saith shall surely shall surely The Chaldeans shall surely

  • Genesis 37:21 - heard And Reuben it and he delivered him out of their hands and said Let us not kill

  • Jeremiah 38:2 - Thus saith the LORD He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans and shall live for he shall have his life for a prey and shall live

  • Psalms 38:12 - lay snares They also that seek after my life for me and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things deceits all the day and imagine

  • Isaiah 38:15 - What shall I say he hath both spoken unto me and himself hath done it I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul

  • Jeremiah 38:16 - sware the king So Zedekiah unto Jeremiah secretly saying liveth As the LORD that made thy life I will not put thee to death neither will I give thee into the hand that seek thy life

  • Isaiah 38:17 - Behold for peace I had great bitterness I had great bitterness but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins

  • Jeremiah 38:17 - Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah Then said the LORD the God of hosts the God of Israel If thou wilt assuredly If thou wilt assuredly princes unto the king of Babylon's and thou shalt live then thy soul and this city shall not be burned with fire and thou shalt live and thine house

  • Jeremiah 38:20 - said But Jeremiah They shall not deliver thee Obey I beseech thee the voice of the LORD which I speak unto thee so it shall be well shall live unto thee and thy soul

  • Jeremiah 39:18 - For I will surely For I will surely by the sword thee and thou shalt not fall but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee because thou hast put thy trust in me saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 40:14 - And said know know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael of the Ammonites of Nethaniah to slay believed thee But Gedaliah of the Ammonites of Ahikam

  • Psalms 40:14 - Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil

  • Jeremiah 40:15 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah saying to Gedaliah secretly in Mizpah saying I pray thee and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and no man shall know I pray thee and I will slay unto thee should be scattered thee that all the Jews which are gathered perish and the remnant in Judah

  • Psalms 41:2 - The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the earth and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies

  • Psalms 41:4 - I said LORD be merciful unto me heal my soul for I have sinned

  • Job 41:21 - His breath coals kindleth and a flame of his mouth goeth out

  • Isaiah 42:1 - Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect delighteth in whom my soul I have put my spirit judgment to the Gentiles upon him he shall bring forth

  • Psalms 42:1 - As the hart panteth brooks after the water my soul panteth after thee O God

  • Psalms 42:2 - thirsteth My soul God God for the living when shall I come and appear before God

  • Psalms 42:4 - When I remember these things I pour out my soul in me for I had gone with the multitude I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise with a multitude that kept holyday

  • Psalms 42:5 - Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted in me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance

  • Psalms 42:6 - O my God my soul is cast down within me therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of the Hermonites from the hill Mizar

  • Psalms 42:11 - Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me hope and my God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God

  • Jeremiah 42:20 - For ye dissembled in your hearts when ye sent and according unto all that the LORD our God saying Pray and according unto all that the LORD our God saying and according unto all that the LORD our God so declare unto us and we will do

  • Genesis 42:21 - And they said one concerning our brother We are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear come the anguish

  • Isaiah 43:4 - Since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honourable and I have loved thee therefore will I give men for thee and people for thy life

  • Psalms 43:5 - Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me hope and my God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God

  • Jeremiah 43:6 - Even men and women and children daughters and the king's and every person had left that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah

  • Jeremiah 44:7 - Therefore now thus saith the LORD the God of hosts the God of Israel Wherefore commit evil ye this great against your souls to cut off from you man and woman child and suckling out of Judah to leave you none to remain

  • Jeremiah 44:14 - there shall escape or remain So that none of the remnant of Judah which are gone to sojourn into the land of Egypt that they should return into the land of Judah to the which they have a desire that they should return to dwell that they should return there shall escape

  • Isaiah 44:20 - He feedeth on ashes heart a deceived hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor say Is there not a lie in my right hand

  • Psalms 44:25 - is bowed down to the dust For our soul cleaveth unto the earth our belly

  • Genesis 44:30 - Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father and the lad be not with us seeing that his life is bound up be not with us seeing that his life

  • Jeremiah 44:30 - Thus saith the LORD Behold I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt and into the hand his enemy and into the hand and that sought his life Behold I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon his enemy and that sought his life

  • Jeremiah 45:5 - And seekest thou great things And seekest them not for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh saith the LORD will I give but thy life unto thee for a prey in all places

  • Isaiah 46:2 - They stoop they bow down together they could not deliver the burden but themselves into captivity are gone

  • Genesis 46:15 - These be the sons of Leah which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram Dinah and his daughters all the souls These be the sons and his daughters were thirty and three

  • Genesis 46:18 - These are the sons of Zilpah gave whom Laban to Leah his daughter and these she bare unto Jacob even sixteen souls

  • Genesis 46:22 - These are the sons of Rachel which were born to Jacob all the souls were fourteen

  • Genesis 46:25 - These are the sons of Bilhah gave which Laban unto Rachel his daughter and she bare these unto Jacob all the souls were seven

  • Genesis 46:26 - All the souls that came besides Jacob's into Egypt which came out of his loins wives sons besides Jacob's All the souls were threescore and six

  • Jeremiah 46:26 - And I will deliver and into the hand of those that seek their lives and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants and afterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old saith the LORD

  • Genesis 46:27 - And the sons of Joseph which were born him in Egypt all the souls were two all the souls of the house of Jacob which came him in Egypt were threescore and ten

  • Ezekiel 47:9 - And it shall come to pass that every thing that liveth which moveth cometh whither the river shall live multitude of fish great and there shall be a very cometh because these waters thither for they shall be healed and every thing shall live cometh whither the river

  • Isaiah 47:14 - Behold they shall be as stubble the fire shall burn them they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame there shall not be a coal to warm at nor fire to sit

  • Jeremiah 48:6 - Flee save your lives and be like the heath in the wilderness

  • Genesis 49:6 - not thou into their secret come O my soul unto their assembly be not thou united mine honour for in their anger they slew a man and in their selfwill they digged down a wall

  • Isaiah 49:7 - Thus saith because of the LORD the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One despiseth to him whom man abhorreth to him whom the nation to a servant of rulers Kings shall see and arise princes also shall worship because of the LORD that is faithful and his Holy One of Israel and he shall choose

  • Psalms 49:8 - is precious For the redemption of their soul and it ceaseth for ever

  • Psalms 49:15 - But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave for he shall receive me Selah

  • Psalms 49:18 - his soul Though while he lived he blessed and men will praise thee when thou doest well

  • Jeremiah 49:37 - to be dismayed For I will cause Elam and before their enemies and before them that seek their life and I will bring evil upon them even my fierce anger saith the LORD and I will send after the sword them till I have consumed

  • Jeremiah 50:19 - And I will bring Israel to his habitation and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan upon mount Ephraim and Gilead shall be satisfied and his soul

  • Jeremiah 51:6 - Flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soul be not cut off in her iniquity for this is the time vengeance of the LORD'S unto her a recompence he will render

  • Jeremiah 51:14 - hath sworn The LORD of hosts by himself saying Surely I will fill thee with men as with caterpillers and they shall lift up a shout

  • Isaiah 51:23 - But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which have said to thy soul Bow down that we may go over But I will put as the ground thy body and as the street that we may go over

  • Jeremiah 51:45 - go ye out of the midst My people of her and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD

  • Jeremiah 52:29 - year In the eighteenth of Nebuchadrezzar from Jerusalem persons In the eighteenth hundred thirty and two

  • Jeremiah 52:30 - year In the three and twentieth of Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard of the Jews all the persons seven hundred forty and five all the persons were four thousand and six hundred

  • Isaiah 53:10 - of the LORD Yet it pleased to bruise him he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make an offering for sin his soul he shall see his seed he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the LORD in his hand shall prosper

  • Isaiah 53:11 - of the travail of his soul He shall see and shall be satisfied by his knowledge justify shall my righteous servant many their iniquities for he shall bear

  • Isaiah 53:12 - Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great with the strong Therefore will I divide the spoil because he hath poured out unto death his soul for the transgressors and he was numbered the sin him a portion with the great and he bare for the transgressors and made intercession

  • Psalms 54:3 - For strangers are risen up against me and oppressors seek after my soul they have not set God before them Selah

  • Psalms 54:4 - Behold God is mine helper the Lord is with them that uphold my soul

  • Isaiah 55:2 - Wherefore do ye spend money not for that which is not bread and your labour not for that which satisfieth diligently diligently unto me and eat ye that which is good delight itself in fatness and let your soul

  • Isaiah 55:3 - Incline your ear unto me hear shall live and your soul and I will make covenant an everlasting mercies of David with you even the sure

  • Psalms 55:18 - He hath delivered in peace my soul from the battle that was against me for there were many

  • Psalms 56:6 - They gather themselves together they hide my steps themselves they mark when they wait for my soul

  • Isaiah 56:11 - dogs Yea they are greedy never have enough and they are shepherds never have that cannot understand to their own way they all look every one for his gain from his quarter

  • Psalms 56:13 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling that I may walk before God in the light of the living

  • Psalms 57:1 - Be merciful unto me O God Be merciful trusteth unto me for my soul in thee yea in the shadow of thy wings trusteth be overpast until these calamities

  • Psalms 57:4 - My soul is among lions and I lie even among them that are set on fire even the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue sword a sharp

  • Psalms 57:6 - a net They have prepared for my steps is bowed down my soul they have digged before a pit whereof they are fallen me into the midst themselves Selah

  • Isaiah 58:3 - Wherefore have we fasted say they and thou seest not wherefore have we afflicted our soul and thou takest no knowledge Behold in the day of your fast ye find pleasure all your labours and exact

  • Isaiah 58:5 - this Is it such a fast that I have chosen a day to afflict for a man his soul is it to bow down as a bulrush his head sackcloth and ashes and to spread this under him wilt thou call Is it such a fast a day and an acceptable to the LORD

  • Isaiah 58:10 - And if thou draw out to the hungry soul soul the afflicted and satisfy rise in obscurity then shall thy light and thy darkness be as the noonday