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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. Ecclesiastes 2:17רֽוּחַ׃ · of the wind
    So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:26רֽוּחַ׃ · of the wind
    To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
  3. Ecclesiastes 3:19וְר֥וּחַ · breath
    For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
  4. Ecclesiastes 3:21 (2×)ר֚וּחַ · if the spirit; וְר֙וּחַ֙ · and the spirit
    Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
  5. Ecclesiastes 4:4רֽוּחַ׃ · of the wind
    I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
  6. Ecclesiastes 4:6רֽוּחַ׃ · of the wind
    Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
  7. Ecclesiastes 4:16רֽוּחַ׃ · of the wind
    There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
  8. Ecclesiastes 5:16לָרֽוּחַ׃ · for the wind
    This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
  9. Ecclesiastes 6:9רֽוּחַ׃ · of the wind
    Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
  10. Ecclesiastes 7:8 (2×)ר֖וּחַ · spirit; רֽוּחַ׃ · [one]
    The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.
  11. Ecclesiastes 7:9בְּרֽוּחֲךָ֖ · in your spirit
    Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
  12. Ecclesiastes 8:8 (2×)בָּר֙וּחַ֙ · over the wind; הָר֔וּחַ · [it]
    As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
  13. Ecclesiastes 10:4ר֤וּחַ · temper
    If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.
  14. Ecclesiastes 11:4ר֖וּחַ · the wind
    He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
  15. Ecclesiastes 11:5הָר֔וּחַ · of the wind
    As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
  16. Ecclesiastes 12:7וְהָר֣וּחַ · and the spirit
    …before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  17. Isaiah 4:4 (2×)בְּר֥וּחַ · by a spirit; וּבְר֥וּחַ · and a spirit
    …when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
  18. Isaiah 7:2רֽוּחַ׃ · by the wind
    When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
  19. Isaiah 11:2 (4×)ר֣וּחַ · The Spirit; ר֧וּחַ · the Spirit; ר֤וּחַ · the Spirit; ר֥וּחַ · the Spirit
    The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.
  20. Isaiah 11:4וּבְר֥וּחַ · with the breath
    …but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
  21. Isaiah 11:15רוּח֑וֹ · wind
    The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
  22. Isaiah 17:13ר֔וּחַ · the wind
    The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
  23. Isaiah 19:3רֽוּחַ־ · Then the spirit
    Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
  24. Isaiah 19:14ר֣וּחַ · a spirit
    The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
  25. Isaiah 25:4ר֥וּחַ · the breath
    For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
  26. Isaiah 26:9רוּחִ֥י · my spirit
    My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
  27. Isaiah 26:18ר֑וּחַ · wind
    We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.
  28. Isaiah 27:8בְּרוּח֥וֹ · wind
    By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
  29. Isaiah 28:6וּלְר֖וּחַ · a spirit
    …a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.
  30. Isaiah 29:10ר֣וּחַ · a spirit
    For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
  31. Isaiah 29:24ר֖וּחַ · in spirit
    Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”
  32. Isaiah 30:1רוּחִ֑י · My will
    “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
  33. Isaiah 30:28וְרוּח֞וֹ · His breath
    His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
  34. Isaiah 31:3ר֑וּחַ · spirit
    But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
  35. Isaiah 32:2ר֖וּחַ · from the wind
    Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
  36. Isaiah 32:15ר֖וּחַ · the Spirit
    …until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
  37. Isaiah 33:11רוּחֲכֶ֕ם · Your breath
    You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
  38. Isaiah 34:16וְרוּח֖וֹ · by His Spirit
    Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
  39. Isaiah 37:7ר֔וּחַ · a spirit
    Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
  40. Isaiah 38:16רוּחִ֔י · my spirit
    O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
  41. Isaiah 40:7ר֥וּחַ · the breath
    The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
  42. Isaiah 40:13ר֖וּחַ · the Spirit
    Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
  43. Isaiah 41:16וְר֣וּחַ · and a wind
    You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.