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Strong’s Concordance H5315
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- nephesh
- Pronunciation
- neh'-fesh
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H5315
- Brief meaning
- Properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality, used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
- Source 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
- Root word
- from H5314
- Full definition from the source
- Properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental). Root word: from H5314.
- Digital-source-added cross-reference note
- H5314
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
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05315\ 5315 nephesh neh'-fesh from 5314; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental):--any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it. see HEBREW for 05314