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נֶ֫פֶשׁ

ne.pheshsoulHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · feminine754 occurrences31 books683 verses

Definition

from H5314; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Traditional renderings: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders נֶ֫פֶשׁ:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

754 total
  1. Jeremiah 31:25נֶ֥פֶשׁ
    …for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”
  2. Jeremiah 32:41נַפְשִֽׁי׃ס · My soul
    Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.
  3. Jeremiah 34:16לְנַפְשָׁ֑ם · to go wherever they wanted
    But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
  4. Jeremiah 34:20נַפְשָׁ֑ם · their lives
    I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
  5. Jeremiah 34:21נַפְשָׁ֑ם · their lives
    And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.
  6. Jeremiah 37:9נַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶם֙ · yourselves
    This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not!
  7. Jeremiah 38:2נַפְשׁ֛וֹ · his life
    “This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.
  8. Jeremiah 38:16הַנֶּ֤פֶשׁ · life; נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃ס · your life
    But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”
  9. Jeremiah 38:17נַפְשֶׁ֔ךָ · then you
    Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.
  10. Jeremiah 38:20נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃ · and you
    “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
  11. Jeremiah 39:18נַפְשְׁךָ֙ · your life
    For I will surely rescue you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will escape with your life like a spoil of war, declares the LORD.’”
  12. Jeremiah 40:14נָ֑פֶשׁ · your life
    …and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.
  13. Jeremiah 40:15נֶּ֗פֶשׁ · your life
    Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
  14. Jeremiah 42:20בְּנַפְשֽׁוֹתֵיכֶם֒ · you
    For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’
  15. Jeremiah 43:6הַנֶּ֗פֶשׁ
    …the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.
  16. Jeremiah 44:7נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵכֶ֔ם · yourselves
    So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?
  17. Jeremiah 44:14נַפְשָׁם֙
    …so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”
  18. Jeremiah 44:30נַפְשׁ֑וֹ · his life; נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃ס · his life
    This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.”
  19. Jeremiah 45:5נַפְשְׁךָ֙ · your life
    But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”
  20. Jeremiah 46:26נַפְשָׁ֔ם · their lives
    I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.
  21. Jeremiah 48:6נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם · for your lives
    ‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
  22. Jeremiah 49:37נַפְשָׁ֗ם · their lives
    So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
  23. Jeremiah 50:19נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃ · his soul
    I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
  24. Jeremiah 51:6נַפְשׁ֔וֹ · lives
    Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
  25. Jeremiah 51:14בְּנַפְשׁ֑וֹ · by Himself
    The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”
  26. Jeremiah 51:45נַפְשׁ֑וֹ · your lives
    Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
  27. Jeremiah 52:29נֶ֕פֶשׁ · people
    …in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
  28. Jeremiah 52:30נֶ֕פֶשׁ · people [were taken away]; נֶ֕פֶשׁ
    …in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.
  29. Lamentations 1:11נָ֑פֶשׁ
    All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
  30. Lamentations 1:16נַפְשִׁ֑י · my soul
    For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
  31. Lamentations 1:19נַפְשָֽׁם׃ס · alive
    I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
  32. Lamentations 2:12נַפְשָׁ֔ם · as their lives
    They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
  33. Lamentations 2:19נֶ֙פֶשׁ֙ · the lives
    Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
  34. Lamentations 3:17נַפְשִׁ֖י · My soul
    My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
  35. Lamentations 3:20נַפְשִֽׁי׃ · my soul
    Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
  36. Lamentations 3:24נַפְשִׁ֔י · my soul
    “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
  37. Lamentations 3:25לְנֶ֖פֶשׁ · to the soul
    The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
  38. Lamentations 3:51לְנַפְשִׁ֔י · to my soul
    My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
  39. Lamentations 3:58נַפְשִׁ֖י · my
    You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
  40. Lamentations 5:9בְּנַפְשֵׁ֙נוּ֙ · at the risk of our lives
    We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
  41. Ezekiel 3:19נַפְשְׁךָ֥ · yourself
    But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
  42. Ezekiel 3:21נַפְשְׁךָ֥ · yourself
    But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
  43. Ezekiel 4:14נַפְשִׁ֖י · I
    “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
  44. Ezekiel 7:19נַפְשָׁם֙ · their appetites
    They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.
  45. Ezekiel 13:18נְפָשׁ֑וֹת · their souls; הַנְּפָשׁוֹת֙ · the souls; וּנְפָשׁ֖וֹת
    …and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own?