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רוּחַ

ru.achspirit
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · feminine378 occurrences32 books348 verses

Definition

from H7306; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
Traditional renderings: air, anger, blast, breath, × cool, courage, mind, × quarter, × side, spirit(-ual), tempest, × vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

378 total
  1. Ezra 1:1ר֙וּחַ֙ · the spirit
    In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
  2. Ezra 1:5רוּח֔וֹ · whose spirit
    So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
  3. Nehemiah 9:20וְרוּחֲךָ֨ · Spirit
    You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
  4. Nehemiah 9:30בְּרוּחֲךָ֛ · and Your Spirit
    You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
  5. Job 1:19ר֨וּחַ · wind
    …when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
  6. Job 4:9וּמֵר֖וּחַ · and by the blast
    By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
  7. Job 4:15וְ֭רוּחַ · Then a spirit
    Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
  8. Job 6:4רוּחִ֑י · my spirit
    For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
  9. Job 6:26וּ֝לְר֗וּחַ · and treat as wind
    Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
  10. Job 7:7ר֣וּחַ · is but a breath
    Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
  11. Job 7:11רוּחִ֑י · of my spirit
    Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  12. Job 8:2וְר֥וּחַ · wind
    “How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
  13. Job 9:18רוּחִ֑י · my breath
    He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
  14. Job 10:12רוּחִֽי׃ · my spirit
    You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
  15. Job 12:10וְ֝ר֗וּחַ · as well as the breath
    The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
  16. Job 15:2ר֑וּחַ · with empty
    “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
  17. Job 15:13רוּחֶ֑ךָ · your spirit
    …so that you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?
  18. Job 15:30בְּר֣וּחַ · and the breath
    He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
  19. Job 16:3ר֑וּחַ · to your long-winded
    Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
  20. Job 17:1רוּחִ֣י · My spirit
    “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
  21. Job 19:17ר֭וּחִֽי · My breath
    My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
  22. Job 20:3וְ֝ר֗וּחַ
    I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
  23. Job 21:4רוּחִֽי׃
    Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
  24. Job 21:18ר֑וּחַ · the wind
    Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
  25. Job 26:13בְּ֭רוּחוֹ · By His breath
    By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
  26. Job 27:3וְר֖וּחַ · and the breath
    …as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
  27. Job 28:25לָר֣וּחַ · of the wind
    When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
  28. Job 30:15כָּ֭רוּחַ · as by the wind
    Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
  29. Job 30:22ר֭וּחַ · the wind
    You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
  30. Job 32:8רֽוּחַ־ · a spirit
    But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
  31. Job 32:18ר֣וּחַ · and my spirit
    For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
  32. Job 33:4רֽוּחַ־ · The Spirit
    The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
  33. Job 34:14רוּח֥וֹ · His Spirit
    If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
  34. Job 37:21וְר֥וּחַ · after the wind
    Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
  35. Job 41:16וְ֝ר֗וּחַ · air
    One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
  36. Psalm 1:4רֽוּחַ׃ · by the wind
    Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
  37. Psalm 11:6וְר֥וּחַ · wind
    On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
  38. Psalm 18:10רֽוּחַ׃ · of the wind
    He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
  39. Psalm 18:15ר֣וּחַ · of the breath
    The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
  40. Psalm 18:42ר֑וּחַ · the wind
    I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
  41. Psalm 31:5ר֫וּחִ֥י · my spirit
    Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.
  42. Psalm 32:2בְּרוּח֣וֹ · in whose spirit
    Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
  43. Psalm 33:6וּבְר֥וּחַ · by the breath
    By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
  44. Psalm 34:18ר֥וּחַ · in spirit
    The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
  45. Psalm 35:5ר֑וּחַ · the wind
    May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
  46. Psalm 48:7בְּר֥וּחַ · With a wind
    With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
  47. Psalm 51:10וְר֥וּחַ · spirit
    Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
  48. Psalm 51:11וְר֥וּחַ · Spirit
    Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
  49. Psalm 51:12וְר֖וּחַ · spirit
    Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
  50. Psalm 51:17ר֪וּחַ · spirit
    The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.