Strong H5315H5315Iנֶ֫פֶשׁ

soul: myself

One of the 8 senses of Strong H5315

Transliteration
nephesh
Pronunciation
neh'-fesh
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

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) uncertain
1h) activity of the will
1h1) uncertain
1i) activity of the character
1i1) uncertain

General 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.

In the Bible

Strong H5315I appears in 117 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • soul82
  • himself6
  • mind6
  • yourself5
  • themselves3
  • die2
  • make2
  • ghost1
  • heart1
  • hearty1
  • herself1
  • him1

First verses

  1. Genesis 27:4
    And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
  2. Genesis 27:19
    And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
  3. Genesis 27:25
    And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
  4. Genesis 27:31
    And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.
  5. Leviticus 7:18
    And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
  6. Leviticus 7:27
    Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
  7. Leviticus 11:43
    Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
  8. Leviticus 11:44
    For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
  9. Leviticus 16:29
    And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
  10. Leviticus 16:31
    It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
  11. Leviticus 20:25
    Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
  12. Leviticus 23:27
    Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
  13. Leviticus 23:29
    For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
  14. Leviticus 23:30
    And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
  15. Leviticus 23:32
    It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
  16. Leviticus 26:11
    And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
  17. Leviticus 26:15
    And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
  18. Leviticus 26:30
    And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
  19. Leviticus 26:43
    The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
  20. Numbers 21:4
    And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
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