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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. Isaiah 41:29ר֥וּחַ · as the wind
    See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
  2. Isaiah 42:1רוּחִי֙ · My Spirit
    “Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
  3. Isaiah 42:5וְר֖וּחַ · and life
    This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
  4. Isaiah 44:3רוּחִי֙ · My Spirit
    For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
  5. Isaiah 48:16וְרוּחֽוֹ׃פ · accompanied by His Spirit
    Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
  6. Isaiah 54:6ר֖וּחַ · in spirit
    For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
  7. Isaiah 57:13ר֖וּחַ · the wind
    When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”
  8. Isaiah 57:15 (2×)ר֔וּחַ · in spirit; ר֣וּחַ · the spirit
    For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
  9. Isaiah 57:16ר֙וּחַ֙ · then the spirit [of man]
    For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.
  10. Isaiah 59:19ר֥וּחַ · by the breath
    So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
  11. Isaiah 59:21רוּחִי֙ · My Spirit
    “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
  12. Isaiah 61:1ר֛וּחַ · The Spirit
    The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
  13. Isaiah 61:3ר֣וּחַ · a spirit
    …to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
  14. Isaiah 63:10ר֣וּחַ · Spirit
    But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
  15. Isaiah 63:11ר֥וּחַ · Spirit
    Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
  16. Isaiah 63:14ר֥וּחַ · the Spirit
    Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.
  17. Isaiah 64:6כָּר֥וּחַ · like the wind
    Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
  18. Isaiah 65:14ר֖וּחַ · spirit
    My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.
  19. Isaiah 66:2ר֔וּחַ · in spirit
    Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
  20. Jeremiah 2:24ר֔וּחַ · the wind
    …a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
  21. Jeremiah 4:11ר֣וּחַ · wind
    At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
  22. Jeremiah 4:12ר֧וּחַ · a wind
    …a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”
  23. Jeremiah 5:13לְר֔וּחַ · but wind
    The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”
  24. Jeremiah 10:13ר֖וּחַ · the wind
    When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
  25. Jeremiah 10:14ר֥וּחַ · breath
    Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
  26. Jeremiah 13:24לְר֖וּחַ · wind
    “I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
  27. Jeremiah 14:6ר֖וּחַ · for air
    Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
  28. Jeremiah 18:17כְּרֽוּחַ־ · wind
    I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
  29. Jeremiah 22:22ר֔וּחַ · The wind
    The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
  30. Jeremiah 49:32ר֖וּחַ · to the wind
    Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD.
  31. Jeremiah 49:36 (2×)רוּח֗וֹת · winds; הָרֻח֣וֹת · winds
    I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
  32. Jeremiah 51:1ר֖וּחַ · the spirit
    This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer.
  33. Jeremiah 51:11ר֙וּחַ֙ · the spirit
    Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.
  34. Jeremiah 51:16ר֖וּחַ · the wind
    When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
  35. Jeremiah 51:17ר֥וּחַ · breath
    Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
  36. Jeremiah 52:23ר֑וּחָה · on the sides
    Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.
  37. Lamentations 4:20ר֤וּחַ · the breath
    The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
  38. Ezekiel 1:4ר֨וּחַ · a whirlwind
    I looked and saw a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire was a gleam like amber,
  39. Ezekiel 1:12הָר֤וּחַ · the spirit
    Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.
  40. Ezekiel 1:20 (3×)הָר֤וּחַ · the spirit; הָר֖וּחַ; ר֥וּחַ · the spirit
    Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
  41. Ezekiel 1:21ר֥וּחַ · the spirit
    When the creatures moved, the wheels moved; when the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
  42. Ezekiel 2:2ר֗וּחַ · the Spirit
    And as He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and I heard Him speaking to me.
  43. Ezekiel 3:12ר֔וּחַ · Then the Spirit
    Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!”
  44. Ezekiel 3:14 (2×)וְר֥וּחַ · So the Spirit; רוּחִ֔י · of my spirit
    So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.
  45. Ezekiel 3:24ר֔וּחַ · Then the Spirit
    Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.