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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. Exodus 15:9נַפְשִׁ֔י
    The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
  2. Exodus 16:16נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם · person
    This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”
  3. Exodus 21:23נֶ֖פֶשׁ · a life; נָֽפֶשׁ׃ · a life
    But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
  4. Exodus 21:30נַפְשׁ֔וֹ · his life
    If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
  5. Exodus 23:9נֶ֣פֶשׁ
    Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
  6. Exodus 30:12נַפְשׁ֛וֹ · for his life
    “When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.
  7. Exodus 30:15נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶֽם׃ · your lives
    In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.
  8. Exodus 30:16נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶֽם׃פ · your lives
    Take the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your lives.”
  9. Exodus 31:14הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ
    Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.
  10. Leviticus 2:1וְנֶ֗פֶשׁ · anyone
    “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,
  11. Leviticus 4:2נֶ֗פֶשׁ · with one
    “Tell the Israelites to do as follows with one who sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s commandments and does what is forbidden by them:
  12. Leviticus 4:27נֶ֧פֶשׁ · one
    And if one of the common people sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the LORD’s commandments, he incurs guilt.
  13. Leviticus 5:1וְנֶ֣פֶשׁ · someone
    “If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.
  14. Leviticus 5:2נֶ֗פֶשׁ · if a person
    Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.
  15. Leviticus 5:4נֶ֡פֶשׁ · someone
    Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.
  16. Leviticus 5:15נֶ֚פֶשׁ · someone
    “If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.
  17. Leviticus 5:17נֶ֙פֶשׁ֙ · someone
    If someone sins and violates any of the LORD’s commandments even though he was unaware, he is guilty and shall bear his punishment.
  18. Leviticus 6:2נֶ֚פֶשׁ · someone
    “If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
  19. Leviticus 7:18וְהַנֶּ֛פֶשׁ · and the one
    If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
  20. Leviticus 7:20וְהַנֶּ֜פֶשׁ · But if anyone; הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ · person
    But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.
  21. Leviticus 7:21וְנֶ֜פֶשׁ · one; הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ · person
    If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”
  22. Leviticus 7:25הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ · the one
    If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.
  23. Leviticus 7:27נֶ֖פֶשׁ; הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ · person
    If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”
  24. Leviticus 11:10נֶ֥פֶשׁ · and creatures
    But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.
  25. Leviticus 11:43נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם · yourselves
    Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
  26. Leviticus 11:44נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם · yourselves
    For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
  27. Leviticus 11:46נֶ֣פֶשׁ · creatures; נֶ֖פֶשׁ · creatures
    This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.
  28. Leviticus 16:29נַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶ֗ם · yourselves
    This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—
  29. Leviticus 16:31נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑ם · yourselves
    It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.
  30. Leviticus 17:10בַּנֶּ֙פֶשׁ֙ · against that person
    If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
  31. Leviticus 17:11נֶ֣פֶשׁ · the life; נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑ם · your souls; בַּנֶּ֥פֶשׁ · for the soul
    For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
  32. Leviticus 17:12נֶ֥פֶשׁ
    Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.’
  33. Leviticus 17:14נֶ֣פֶשׁ · the life; בְנַפְשׁוֹ֮; נֶ֤פֶשׁ · the life
    For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.’
  34. Leviticus 17:15נֶ֗פֶשׁ · person
    And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.
  35. Leviticus 18:29הַנְּפָשׁ֥וֹת
    Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.
  36. Leviticus 19:8הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ · person
    Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.
  37. Leviticus 19:28לָנֶ֗פֶשׁ · for the dead
    You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
  38. Leviticus 20:6וְהַנֶּ֗פֶשׁ · Whoever; בַּנֶּ֣פֶשׁ · against that person
    Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
  39. Leviticus 20:25נַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶ֜ם
    You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
  40. Leviticus 21:1לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ · for a dead person
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,