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)


  • Ecclesiastes 6:9 - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire this is also vanity and vexation of spirit

  • Ecclesiastes 7:28 - seeketh Which yet my soul among all those have I not found man not one among a thousand among all those have I not found but a woman among all those have I not found

  • Esther 4:13 - commanded Then Mordecai to answer Esther Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape house in the king's more than all the Jews

  • Esther 7:3 - answered Then Esther the queen and said If I have found favour in thy sight O king O king and if it please be given let my life me at my petition and my people at my request

  • Esther 7:7 - And the king arising in his wrath from the banquet of wine garden went into the palace and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen for he saw determined that there was evil And the king

  • Esther 8:11 - granted Wherein the king the Jews which were in every city which were in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life to destroy to slay and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them both little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for a prey

  • Esther 9:16 - But the other Jews provinces that were in the king's gathered themselves together and stood for their lives and had rest from their enemies and slew of their foes and five seventy thousand on the prey but they laid not their hands

  • Esther 9:31 - To confirm these days of Purim in their times To confirm appointed according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen To confirm for themselves and for their seed the matters of the fastings and their cry

  • Exodus 1:5 - And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy And all the souls for Joseph was in Egypt

  • Exodus 4:19 - said And the LORD unto Moses in Midian return into Egypt are dead for all the men which sought thy life

  • Exodus 12:4 - too little And if the household be for the lamb take let him and his neighbour next And if the household it according to the number of the souls every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb

  • Exodus 12:15 - Seven day unleavened bread for whosoever eateth even day from the first ye shall put away leaven out of your houses for whosoever eateth leavened bread shall be cut that soul off from Israel day from the first day until the seventh

  • Exodus 12:16 - day And in the first convocation there shall be an holy day and in the seventh convocation there shall be an holy to you no manner of work shall be done in them save must eat that which every man shall be done

  • Exodus 12:19 - Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses for whosoever eateth shall be cut off even that soul from the congregation of Israel whether he be a stranger or born in the land

  • Exodus 15:9 - said The enemy I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoil shall be satisfied my lust upon them I will draw my sword shall destroy my hand

  • Exodus 16:16 - This is the thing which hath commanded the LORD Gather of it every man according to his eating an omer for every man according to the number of your persons of it every man which for them which are in his tents take

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Exodus 30:12 - When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD after their number them that there be no plague after their number