Strong’s H5315
נֶפֶשׁ — nephesh
נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh, Strong’s H5315) means: properly, a breathing creature, i.
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
- H5315
- /neh'-fesh/
- 757× in the Bible
- Transliteration
- nephesh
- Pronunciation
- neh'-fesh
- Occurrences
- 757
Meaning
- Hebrew
- נֶפֶשׁ
- Definition
- properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
- Derivation
- from H5314 (נָפַשׁ);
- King James Version renders it as
- 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.
Derived from
- נָפַשׁ nâphashH5314 · to breathe · 3×
Where it appears
The first verses that use nephesh (757 times in all).
Sources
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