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Hebrew - English Dictionary

H5315 - Souls

Strong's No.:H5315

Hebrew:נֶפֶשׁ

Transliteration:nephesh

Phonetic:neh'-fesh

Word Origin:From H5314

Bible Usage:{any} {appetite} {beast} {body} {breath} {creature} X-(idiom) dead ({-ly}) {desire} X-(idiom) [dis-] {contented} X-(idiom) {fish} {ghost} + {greedy} {he} heart ({-y}) ({hath} X-(idiom) jeopardy of) life (X in {jeopardy}) {lust} {man} {me} {mind} {mortality} {one} {own} {person} {pleasure} ({her-} {him-} {my-} thy-) {self} them (your) {-selves} + {slay} {soul} + {tablet} {they} {thing} (X she) {will} X-(idiom) would have it.

Part of Speech:Noun Feminine

Strongs
Definition:

properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)


Brown Driver
Biggs Definition:

1. soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion

a. that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man

b. living being

c. living being (with life in the blood)

d. the man himself, self, person or individual

e. seat of the appetites

f. seat of emotions and passions

g. activity of mind

1. dubious

h. activity of the will

1. dubious

i. activity of the character

1. dubious


Bible References:
Souls

Translation
Occurrences:
any ( 2 )
appetite ( 2 )
beast ( 3 )
body ( 8 )
breath ( 1 )
creature ( 9 )
dead ( 5 )
deadly ( 1 )
desire ( 3 )
fish ( 1 )
ghost ( 2 )
he ( 2 )
heart ( 13 )
hearts ( 2 )
herself ( 2 )
him ( 2 )
himself ( 8 )
it ( 1 )
life ( 102 )
lives ( 18 )
lust ( 2 )
man ( 4 )
me ( 3 )
men ( 1 )
mind ( 11 )
minds ( 4 )
mortally ( 1 )
myself ( 1 )
one ( 1 )
own ( 1 )
person ( 14 )
persons ( 16 )
pleasure ( 3 )
soul ( 409 )
souls ( 54 )
themselves ( 3 )
They ( 1 )
thing ( 2 )
thyself ( 1 )
will ( 4 )
yourselves ( 5 )

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.