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

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.(e)

2 Samuel 14:19

And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:

2 Samuel 16:11

And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord hath bidden him.

2 Samuel 17:8

For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.(e)

2 Samuel 18:13

Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.

2 Samuel 19:5

And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;

2 Samuel 23:17

And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord , that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.

1 Kings 1:12

Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

1 Kings 1:29

And the king sware, and said, As the Lord liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,

1 Kings 2:4

That the Lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.(b)

1 Kings 2:23

Then king Solomon sware by the Lord , saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

1 Kings 3:11

And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;(c)

(d)

1 Kings 8:48

And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

1 Kings 11:37

And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

1 Kings 17:21

And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord , and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again.(g)

(h)

1 Kings 17:22

And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.

1 Kings 19:3

And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer–sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord , take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.(a)

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

1 Kings 19:14

And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

1 Kings 20:31

And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

1 Kings 20:32

So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben–hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.

1 Kings 20:39

And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.(p)

1 Kings 20:42

And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord , Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

2 Kings 1:13

And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.(c)

2 Kings 1:14

Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.

2 Kings 2:2

And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Beth–el. And Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth–el.

2 Kings 2:4

And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.

2 Kings 2:6

And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.

2 Kings 4:27

And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.(h)

(i)

2 Kings 4:30

And the mother of the child said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.

2 Kings 7:7

Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

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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 H5315

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

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Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5315