Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5397

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Original: נשׁמה

Transliteration: neshamah (neshâmâh)

Phonetic: nesh-aw-maw'

BDB Definition:

breath, spirit
1. breath (of God)
2. breath (of man)
3. every breathing thing
4. spirit (of man)

Origin: from H5395

TWOT entry: 1433a

Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

Strong's Definition: From H5395; a puff, that is, wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect or (concretely) an animal: - blast, (that) breath (-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (23x)

All That Breathed (1x)

And His Breath (1x)

And The Inspiration (1x)

And Whose Spirit (1x)

Any That Breathed (1x)

At The Blast (2x)

Breath (1x)

By The Blast (1x)

By The Breath (1x)

In Me, Neither Is There Breath (1x)

Let Every Thing That Hath Breath (1x)

Me, And The Breath (1x)

Me, And The Souls (1x)

My Breath (1x)

Nothing That Breatheth (1x)

That There Was No Breath (1x)

The Breath (2x)

The Spirit (1x)

They Any To Breathe (1x)

To Breathe (1x)

Whose Breath (1x)

All Occurrences

Genesis 2:7

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.(c)

Deuteronomy 20:16

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.

Joshua 11:11

And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.(d)

Joshua 11:14

And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

2 Samuel 22:16

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord , at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

1 Kings 15:29

And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord , which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

1 Kings 17:17

And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

Job 4:9

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.(c)

Job 26:4

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

Job 27:3

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;(c)

Job 32:8

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

Job 34:14

If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;(e)

Job 37:10

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

Psalm 18:15

Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord , at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

Psalm 150:6

Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord . Praise ye the Lord .

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord , searching all the inward parts of the belly.(i)

Isaiah 2:22

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Isaiah 30:33

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord , like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.(r)

Isaiah 42:5

Thus saith God the Lord , he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Daniel 10:17

For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.(j)

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

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 H5397

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5397