H5315 - נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh)

H5315 נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh) neh'-fesh

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

soul

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)

Derivation: from H5314 (נָפַשׁ);

KJV Usage: 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.

TWOT Reference: 1395a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion

1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man

1b) living being

1c) living being (with life in the blood)

1d) the man himself, self, person or individual

1e) seat of the appetites

1f) seat of emotions and passions

1g) activity of mind

1g1) dubious

1h) activity of the will

1h1) dubious

1i) activity of the character

1i1) dubious

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G435 G1658 G1680 G1798 G2588 G2776 G4157 G4983 G5590

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion 1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man 1b) living being 1c) living being (with life in the blood) 1d) the man himself, self, person or individual 1e) seat of the appetites 1f) seat of emotions and passions 1g) activity of mind 1g1) uncertain 1h) activity of the will 1h1) uncertain 1i) activity of the character 1i1) uncertain

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

נֶפֶשׁ nephesh BDB Definition: 1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion 1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man 1b) living being 1c) living being (with life in the blood) 1d) the man himself, self, person or individual 1e) seat of the appetites 1f) seat of emotions and passions 1g) activity of mind 1g1) dubious 1h) activity of the will 1h1) dubious 1i) activity of the character 1i1) dubious Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5314 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1395a Total KJV Occurrences: 749

Bible Occurrences (676)

1:20 1:21 1:24 1:30 2:7 2:19 9:4 9:5 9:10 9:12 9:15 9:16 12:5 12:13 14:21 17:14 19:17 19:19 19:20 23:8 27:4 27:19 27:25 27:31 32:30 34:3 34:8 35:18 36:6 37:21 42:21 44:30 46:15 46:18 46:22 46:25 46:26 46:27 49:6

1:5 4:19 12:4 12:15 12:16 12:19 15:9 16:16 21:23 21:30 23:9 30:12 30:15 30:16 31:14

2:1 4:2 4:27 5:1 5:2 5:4 5:15 5:17 6:2 7:18 7:20 7:21 7:25 7:27 11:10 11:43 11:44 11:46 16:29 16:31 17:10 17:11 17:12 17:14 17:15 18:29 19:8 19:28 20:6 20:25 21:1 21:11 22:3 22:4 22:6 22:11 23:27 23:29 23:30 23:32 24:17 24:18 26:11 26:15 26:16 26:30 26:43 27:2

5:2 5:6 6:6 6:11 9:6 9:7 9:10 9:13 11:6 15:27 15:28 15:30 15:31 16:38 19:11 19:13 19:18 19:20 19:22 21:4 21:5 23:10 29:7 30:2 30:4 30:5 30:6 30:7 30:8 30:9 30:10 30:11 30:12 30:13 31:19 31:28 31:35 31:40 31:46 31:50 35:11 35:15 35:30 35:31

4:9 4:15 4:29 6:5 10:12 10:22 11:13 11:18 12:15 12:20 12:21 12:23 13:3 13:6 14:26 18:6 19:6 19:11 19:21 21:14 22:26 23:24 24:6 24:7 24:15 26:16 27:25 28:65 30:2 30:6 30:10

2:13 2:14 9:24 10:28 10:30 10:32 10:35 10:37 10:39 11:11 20:3 20:9 22:5 23:11 23:14

5:18 5:21 9:17 10:16 12:3 16:16 16:30 18:25

4:15

1:10 1:15 1:26 2:16 2:33 2:35 17:55 18:1 18:3 19:5 19:11 20:1 20:3 20:4 20:17 22:2 22:22 22:23 23:15 23:20 24:11 25:26 25:29 26:21 26:24 28:9 28:21 30:6

1:9 3:21 4:8 4:9 5:8 11:11 14:7 14:14 14:19 16:11 17:8 18:13 19:5 23:17

1:12 1:29 2:4 2:23 3:11 8:48 11:37 17:21 17:22 19:2 19:3 19:4 19:10 19:14 20:31 20:32 20:39 20:42

1:13 1:14 2:2 2:4 2:6 4:27 4:30 7:7 9:15 10:24 12:4 23:3 23:25

5:21 11:19 22:19 28:9

1:11 6:38 15:12 34:31

4:13 7:3 7:7 8:11 9:16 9:31

2:4 2:6 3:20 6:7 6:11 7:11 7:15 9:21 10:1 11:20 12:10 13:14 14:22 16:4 18:4 19:2 21:25 23:13 24:12 27:2 27:8 30:16 30:25 31:30 31:39 32:2 33:18 33:20 33:22 33:28 33:30 36:14 41:21

3:2 6:3 6:4 7:2 7:5 10:3 11:1 11:5 13:2 16:10 17:9 17:13 19:7 22:20 22:29 23:3 24:4 25:1 25:13 25:20 26:9 27:12 30:3 31:7 31:9 31:13 33:19 33:20 34:2 34:22 35:3 35:4 35:7 35:9 35:12 35:13 35:17 35:25 38:12 40:14 41:2 41:4 42:1 42:2 42:4 42:5 42:6 42:11 43:5 44:25 49:8 49:15 49:18 54:3 54:4 55:18 56:6 56:13 57:1 57:4 57:6 59:3 62:1 62:5 63:1 63:5 63:8 63:9 66:9 66:16 69:1 69:10 69:18 70:2 71:10 71:13 71:23 72:13 72:14 74:19 77:2 78:18 78:50 84:2 86:2 86:4 86:13 86:14 88:3 88:14 89:48 94:17 94:19 94:21 97:10 103:1 103:2 103:22 104:1 104:35 105:18 105:22 106:15 107:5 107:9 107:18 107:26 109:20 109:31 116:4 116:7 116:8 119:20 119:25 119:28 119:81 119:109 119:129 119:167 119:175 120:2 120:6 121:7 123:4 124:4 124:5 124:7 130:5 130:6 131:2 138:3 139:14 141:8 142:4 142:7 143:3 143:6 143:8 143:11 143:12 146:1

1:18 1:19 2:10 3:22 6:16 6:26 6:30 6:32 7:23 8:36 10:3 11:17 11:25 11:30 12:10 13:2 13:3 13:4 13:8 13:19 13:25 14:10 14:25 15:32 16:17 16:24 16:26 18:7 19:2 19:8 19:15 19:16 19:18 20:2 21:10 21:23 22:5 22:23 22:25 23:2 23:7 23:14 24:12 24:14 25:13 25:25 27:7 27:9 28:17 28:25 29:10 29:17 29:24 31:6

2:24 4:8 6:2 6:3 6:7 6:9 7:28

1:14 3:9 3:20 5:14 10:18 15:4 19:10 26:8 26:9 29:8 32:6 38:15 38:17 42:1 43:4 44:20 46:2 47:14 49:7 51:23 53:10 53:11 53:12 55:2 55:3 56:11 58:3 58:5 58:10 58:11 61:10 66:3

2:24 2:34 3:11 4:10 4:19 4:30 4:31 5:9 5:29 6:8 6:16 9:9 11:21 12:7 13:17 14:19 15:1 15:9 17:21 18:20 19:7 19:9 20:13 21:7 21:9 22:25 22:27 26:19 31:12 31:14 31:25 32:41 34:16 34:20 34:21 37:9 38:2 38:16 38:17 38:20 39:18 40:14 40:15 42:20 43:6 44:7 44:14 44:30 45:5 46:26 48:6 49:37 50:19 51:6 51:14 51:45 52:29 52:30

1:11 1:16 1:19 2:12 2:19 3:17 3:20 3:24 3:25 3:51 3:58 5:9

3:19 3:21 4:14 7:19 13:18 13:19 13:20 14:14 14:20 16:5 16:27 17:17 18:4 18:20 18:27 22:25 22:27 23:17 23:18 23:22 23:28 24:21 24:25 25:6 25:15 27:13 27:31 32:10 33:5 33:6 33:9 36:5 47:9

4:8 9:4

2:14 2:15 6:8

1:14 2:5 2:7 4:3 4:8

6:7 7:1 7:3

2:4 2:5 2:10

2:13

11:8

Genesis 1:20

And God said, Let the waters teem with living... creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.

Genesis 1:21

So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, [with] which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that [it was] good.

Genesis 1:24

And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds. And it was so.

Genesis 1:30

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth — everything that has the breath of life in it — [I have given] every green plant for food. And it was so.

Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man [from] the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:19

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought [them] to the man to see what he would name... each one -. And whatever the man called... each living creature, that [was] its name.

Genesis 9:4

But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood [still] in it.

Genesis 9:5

And surely I will require... the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood [is shed].... I will demand an accounting from anyone [who takes] the life of his fellow man...: