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)


  • Exodus 30:15 - The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel when they give an offering unto the LORD to make an atonement for your souls

  • Exodus 30:16 - And thou shalt take money the atonement of the children of Israel and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation of the children of Israel that it may be a memorial before the LORD to make an atonement for your souls

  • Exodus 31:14 - Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you every one that defileth be put to death be put to death for whosoever doeth any work shall be cut off therein that soul from among his people

  • Ezekiel 3:19 - Yet if thou warn nor from his wicked and he turn not from his wickedness way nor from his wicked in his iniquity he shall die thy soul but thou hast delivered

  • Ezekiel 3:21 - Nevertheless if thou warn man that the righteous not and he doth not sin man that the righteous not and he doth not sin he shall surely he shall surely Nevertheless if thou warn thy soul also thou hast delivered

  • Ezekiel 4:14 - Then said I Ah Lord GOD behold my soul hath not been polluted of that which dieth of itself or is torn in pieces up even till now have I not eaten for from my youth neither came into my mouth flesh there abominable

  • Ezekiel 7:19 - their silver in the streets They shall cast and their gold shall be removed their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD their souls they shall not satisfy their bowels neither fill because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity

  • Ezekiel 13:18 - And say And say the Lord GOD Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature Will ye hunt souls souls Will ye hunt of my people souls alive alive

  • Ezekiel 13:19 - And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread that should not die the souls that should not die alive the souls alive by your lying me among my people that hear your lies

  • Ezekiel 13:20 - Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against your pillows wherewith ye that ye hunt and will let the souls to make them fly and I will tear them from your arms go and will let the souls wherewith ye that ye hunt and will let the souls to make them fly

  • Ezekiel 14:14 - Though these three men were in it Noah Daniel and Job by their righteousness they should deliver but their own souls saith the Lord

  • Ezekiel 14:20 - Though Noah Daniel and Job were in it as I live saith the Lord GOD nor neither son nor daughter they shall but deliver by their righteousness they shall but deliver their own souls

  • Ezekiel 16:5 - pitied None eye thee to do any of these unto thee to have compassion upon thee but thou wast cast out in the open field to the lothing of thy person in the day that thou wast born

  • Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee and have diminished thine ordinary food and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee the daughters of the Philistines which are ashamed way of thy lewd

  • Ezekiel 17:17 - army with his mighty company and great make Neither shall Pharaoh for him in the war by casting up mounts and building forts to cut off persons and great

  • Ezekiel 18:4 - Behold all souls Behold all souls of the father Behold all souls of the son Behold all souls that sinneth it shall die

  • Ezekiel 18:20 - The soul that sinneth it shall die The son bear the iniquity neither shall the father neither shall the father bear the iniquity The son the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him and the wickedness of the wicked

  • Ezekiel 18:27 - man turneth away Again when the wicked from his wickedness and doeth and doeth that which is lawful and right his soul alive

  • 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

  • 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