H5315 · נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh · neh'-fesh · soul, life, person, mind
H5315 (nephesh, pronounced neh'-fesh) is the Hebrew word נֶפֶשׁ in Strong’s dictionary: properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality. It appears 754 times in 683 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- נֶפֶשׁ (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- nephesh
- Pronunciation
- neh'-fesh
- Derivation
- from H5314 (נָפַשׁ);
- Definition
- properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
- Rendered in the KJV
- 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.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
754 occurrences in 683 verses (668 with English words of their own, 86 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “my soul” ×45
- “my life” ×27
- “his life” ×24
- “your life” ×22
- “I” ×18
- “My soul” ×17
- “his soul” ×14
- “person” ×13
By book
Genesis 39 · Exodus 15 · Leviticus 48 · Numbers 44 · Deuteronomy 31 · Joshua 15 · Judges 8 · Ruth 1 · 1 Samuel 28 · 2 Samuel 14 · 1 Kings 18 · 2 Kings 13 · 1 Chronicles 4 · 2 Chronicles 4 · Esther 6 · Job 33 · Psalms 141 · Proverbs 54 · Ecclesiastes 7 · Song of Solomon 7 · Isaiah 32 · Jeremiah 58 · Lamentations 12 · Ezekiel 33 · Hosea 2 · Amos 3 · Jonah 5 · Micah 3 · Habakkuk 3 · Haggai 1 · Zechariah 1
First 30 of 683 verses
- Genesis 1:20
- Genesis 1:21
- Genesis 1:24
- Genesis 1:30
- Genesis 2:7
- Genesis 2:19
- Genesis 9:4
- Genesis 9:5
- Genesis 9:10
- Genesis 9:12
- Genesis 9:15
- Genesis 9:16
- Genesis 12:5
- Genesis 12:13
- Genesis 14:21
- Genesis 17:14
- Genesis 19:17
- Genesis 19:19
- Genesis 19:20
- Genesis 23:8
- Genesis 27:4
- Genesis 27:19
- Genesis 27:25
- Genesis 27:31
- Genesis 32:30
- Genesis 34:3
- Genesis 34:8
- Genesis 35:18
- Genesis 36:6
- Genesis 37:21
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H5315.