Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5315

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Original: נפשׁ

Transliteration: nephesh

Phonetic: neh'-fesh

BDB Definition:

soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
1. that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
2. living being
3. living being (with life in the blood)
4. the man himself, self, person or individual
5. seat of the appetites
6. seat of emotions and passions
7. activity of mind
  1. dubious
8. activity of the will
  1. dubious
9. activity of the character
  1. dubious

Origin: from H5314

TWOT entry: 1395a

Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

Strong's Definition: From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality ; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental): - any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead (-ly), desire, X [dis-] contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart (-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortality, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (741x)

A Desire (1x)

According To All That Thy Soul (1x)

After My Life (1x)

After My Soul (5x)

Against Any Person (1x)

Against His Own Life (1x)

Against Mine Own Life (1x)

Against My Soul (1x)

Against Our Souls (1x)

Against That Soul (2x)

Against The Soul (1x)

Against Thee, From Whom Thy Mind (1x)

Against Their Own Souls (1x)

Against Your Souls (1x)

All The Persons (1x)

All The Souls (8x)

Among Us, Lest Angry (1x)

And All The Persons (1x)

And All The Souls (4x)

And Because Their Soul (1x)

And Every Person (1x)

And Every Soul (1x)

And His Life (1x)

And His Soul (8x)

And If A Soul (2x)

And In All Your Souls (1x)

And In My Mind (1x)

And In Your Soul (1x)

And It Came To Pass, As Her Soul (1x)

And Let Not Thy Soul (1x)

And Let Your Soul (1x)

And My Life (1x)

And My Soul (4x)

And Now My Soul (1x)

And Of Every Creature (1x)

And Of Men (1x)

And Our Soul (1x)

And Shall Not My Soul (1x)

And Slayeth (1x)

And That Person (1x)

And That Soul (3x)

And That Which Your Soul (1x)

And The Life (2x)

And The Lives (3x)

And The Persons (1x)

And The Soul (6x)

And The Souls (2x)

And Their Soul (2x)

And Upon The Persons (1x)

And Whatsoever Soul (1x)

And When Any (1x)

And Will Let The Souls (1x)

And With All His Soul (2x)

And With All Their Soul (4x)

And With All Thy Soul (7x)

And With All Your Soul (3x)

And With My Whole Soul (1x)

And Ye Shall Not Make Your Souls (1x)

And Yet The Appetite (1x)

And Your Soul (2x)

And, Behold, As Thy Life (1x)

Any (2x)

Any Person (4x)

Are Mine; As The Soul (1x)

As The Life (1x)

As Thine Own Soul (1x)

As Thy Soul (1x)

At Her Pleasure (1x)

At His Pleasure (1x)

At Their Pleasure (1x)

At Thine Own Pleasure (1x)

Be For His Life (1x)

Beast (1x)

Because My Soul (1x)

Because Thy Soul (1x)

Behold, All Souls (1x)

Behold, His Soul (1x)

Behold, My Soul (1x)

Body (4x)

Both Soul (1x)

But Now Our Soul (1x)

But The Soul (4x)

But Themselves (1x)

But Thy Life (2x)

By A Dead Body (1x)

By Hearty (1x)

By Himself (2x)

By Reason Of A Dead Body (1x)

By The Dead (2x)

By The Dead Body (2x)

Creature (8x)

Desire (1x)

Discontented (1x)

Even That Soul (3x)

Even The Same Soul (1x)

Even The Soul (1x)

Even The Souls (1x)

Every Thing (1x)

For Beast (1x)

100

For Fish (1x)

101

For He Shall Have His Life (1x)

102

For Her Soul (1x)

103

For Him, To The Soul (1x)

104

For Himself (1x)

105

For His Life (4x)

106

For His Own Life (1x)

107

For His Soul (1x)

108

For Life (2x)

109

For My Life (1x)

110

For My Soul (8x)

111

For Our Soul (1x)

112

For Our Souls (1x)

113

For The Dead (2x)

114

For The Life (5x)

115

For The Soul (2x)

116

For Their Life (2x)

117

For Their Lives (1x)

118

For Their Lust (1x)

119

For Their Soul (1x)

120

For Themselves (1x)

121

For Thy Life (1x)

122

For Whatsoever Soul (1x)

123

For Whatsoever Thy Soul (1x)

124

For Your Souls (4x)

125

From Her, Like As My Mind (1x)

126

From Whom Thy Mind (1x)

127

Greedy (1x)

128

Hath Thy Soul (1x)

129

He (2x)

130

He Should Make His Soul (1x)

131

Heart (2x)

132

Hearts (1x)

133

Her Soul (8x)

134

Her, Our Life (1x)

135

Herself (2x)

136

Him (1x)

137

Him As His Own Soul (2x)

138

Him Mortally (1x)

139

Him Unto The Will (1x)

140

Him Whom My Soul (3x)

141

Him, Because The Soul (1x)

142

Him, For The Life (1x)

143

Himself (4x)

144

Himself, That Soul (1x)

145

His Breath (1x)

146

His Desire (1x)

147

His Heart (1x)

148

His Life (9x)

149

His Own (1x)

150

His Own Soul (9x)

151

His Soul (26x)

152

I Beseech Thee, My Life (1x)

153

I Pray Thee, Let Me Live (1x)

154

I Pray Thee, Let My Life (1x)

155

If A Soul (3x)

156

In Heart (1x)

157

In Himself (1x)

158

In His Heart (1x)

159

In Jeopardy Of Their Lives (1x)

160

In My Soul (2x)

161

In My Soul’s (1x)

162

In The Lad’s Life (1x)

163

In Their Minds (1x)

164

In Your Hearts (1x)

165

Into Their Soul (1x)

166

Is Mine: The Soul (1x)

167

It Utterly, And All The Souls (1x)

168

It, My Soul (1x)

169

Lest My Soul (1x)

170

Let Me Die (2x)

171

Let My Life (1x)

172

Let My Soul (1x)

173

Let Us Not Kill (1x)

174

Life (1x)

175

Lives (1x)

176

Me Not Over Unto The Will (1x)

177

Me Now! For My Soul (1x)

178

Me The Persons (1x)

179

Me, O Thou Whom My Soul (1x)

180

Mind (1x)

181

Minds (1x)

182

Mine Heart (1x)

183

Moreover The Soul (1x)

184

My Deadly (1x)

185

My Life (12x)

186

My Lust (1x)

187

My Mind (1x)

188

My Soul (79x)

189

Myself (1x)

190

No Soul (1x)

191

Nor The Life (1x)

192

Not My Soul (2x)

193

Not The Soul (1x)

194

Not Their Soul (1x)

195

Not Thy Life (2x)

196

Not With Thyself (1x)

197

Not With Us; Seeing That His Life (1x)

198

Not Yourselves (1x)

199

Not: My Soul (1x)

200

Nothing For His Soul (1x)

201

Nothing: But The Soul (1x)

202

O My Soul (13x)

203

Of All The Persons (1x)

204

Of Heart (2x)

205

Of Her Soul (1x)

206

Of His Heart’s (1x)

207

Of His Life (1x)

208

Of His Mind (1x)

209

Of His Soul (5x)

210

Of Mind (1x)

211

Of My Soul (8x)

212

Of Our Lives (1x)

213

Of Soul (1x)

214

Of The Desire (1x)

215

Of The Ghost (1x)

216

Of The Souls (2x)

217

Of Their Soul (1x)

218

Of Thy Person (1x)

219

Of Thy Soul (1x)

220

Of Your Lives (1x)

221

Of Your Persons (1x)

222

One (1x)

223

Or For Whatsoever Thy Soul (1x)

224

Or If A Soul (2x)

225

Or If Your Soul (1x)

226

Our Lives (2x)

227

Our Soul (7x)

228

Over All That Thine Heart (1x)

229

Person (5x)

230

Persons (5x)

231

Shall Go For His Life (1x)

232

Shall Not My Soul (2x)

233

So Also The Soul (1x)

234

So Let My Life (1x)

235

So That My Soul (1x)

236

So Would We Have It (1x)

237

Soul (20x)

238

Souls (8x)

239

That Every Man (1x)

240

That Hath (1x)

241

That Have Put Their Lives In Jeopardy (1x)

242

That His Soul (1x)

243

That My Soul (2x)

244

That Soul (3x)

245

That The Soul (1x)

246

That Thy Soul (2x)

247

The Dead (1x)

248

The Ghost (1x)

249

The Heart (1x)

250

The Life (7x)

251

The Persons (2x)

252

The Same Soul (1x)

253

The Soul (18x)

254

The Souls (8x)

255

Thee Unto The Will (1x)

256

Thee: My Soul (1x)

257

Their Heart (1x)

258

Their Life (5x)

259

Their Lives (5x)

260

Their Minds (1x)

261

Their Own Souls (2x)

262

Their Soul (5x)

263

Their Souls (3x)

264

Them, And All The Souls (1x)

265

Them, And Their Soul (1x)

266

Themselves (1x)

267

Then My Mind (1x)

268

Then Shall Thy Life (1x)

269

Then Thy Soul (1x)

270

Therefore Doth My Soul (1x)

271

Therefore Let My Life (1x)

272

Therefore Thy Life (1x)

273

Therefore Unto Yourselves (1x)

274

Therein, That Soul (1x)

275

Thereof, And All The Souls (1x)

276

They (1x)

277

Thine Heart (1x)

278

Thine Own Life (1x)

279

Thing (1x)

280

Thy Life (11x)

281

Thy Soul (20x)

282

To Appetite (1x)

283

To Him Whom Man (1x)

284

To His Own Soul (1x)

285

To His Soul (1x)

286

To My Soul (2x)

287

To Slay (1x)

288

To The Soul (3x)

289

To Thy Soul (2x)

290

To Yourselves (1x)

291

Toward Him For The Life (1x)

292

Truly My Soul (1x)

293

Unto Him (1x)

294

Unto Me: For My Soul (1x)

295

Unto My Soul (2x)

296

Unto The Soul (1x)

297

Unto Thee, And Thy Soul (1x)

298

Unto Thee: My Soul (1x)

299

Unto Thee; And My Soul (1x)

300

Unto Their Soul (1x)

301

Unto Thy Soul (4x)

302

Unto Yourselves (1x)

303

Upon Him, Even That Soul (1x)

304

Upon Him, That Soul (1x)

305

Upon Me, Because My Life (1x)

306

Us This Soul (1x)

307

Whatsoever Soul (1x)

308

Whatsoever Thy Soul (4x)

309

When My Soul (1x)

310

When Their Soul (1x)

311

Wherefore Should He Slay (1x)

312

Whereunto They Desire (1x)

313

Which Every Man (1x)

314

Which Yet My Soul (1x)

315

Whither She Will (1x)

316

With Me For Thy Sake; And My Soul (1x)

317

With My Soul (1x)

318

With The Life (1x)

319

With The Lives (1x)

320

With The Soul (1x)

321

With Them, And Her Mind (1x)

322

Ye Him Whom My Soul (1x)

323

Ye To My Soul (1x)

324

Yea, His Soul (1x)

325

You: And My Soul (1x)

326

Your Lives (1x)

327

Your Mind (1x)

328

Your Minds (1x)

329

Your Soul (1x)

330

Your Souls (5x)

331

Yourselves (2x)

All Occurrences

1 Samuel 1:26

And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord .

1 Samuel 2:16

And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.(b)

1 Samuel 2:33

And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.(h)

1 Samuel 2:35

And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

1 Samuel 17:55

And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

1 Samuel 18:1

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:3

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 19:5

For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

1 Samuel 19:11

Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

1 Samuel 20:1

And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?

1 Samuel 20:3

And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

1 Samuel 20:4

Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.(b)

(c)

1 Samuel 20:17

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.(i)

1 Samuel 22:2

And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.(a)

(b)

1 Samuel 22:22

And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.

1 Samuel 22:23

Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.

1 Samuel 23:15

And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

1 Samuel 23:20

Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.

1 Samuel 24:11

Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

1 Samuel 25:26

Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.(l)

1 Samuel 25:29

Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.(o)

1 Samuel 26:21

Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

1 Samuel 26:24

And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord , and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.

1 Samuel 28:9

And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

1 Samuel 28:21

And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

1 Samuel 30:6

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.(a)

2 Samuel 1:9

He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.(c)

2 Samuel 3:21

And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

2 Samuel 4:8

And they brought the head of Ish–bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish–bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the Lord hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

2 Samuel 4:9

And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the Lord liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

2 Samuel 5:8

And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.(b)

2 Samuel 11:11

And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

2 Samuel 14:7

And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.(c)

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

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Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H5315

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5315