H5315: נֶפֶשׁ

Extended definition

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H5315 is translated

• my ×192
• your ×110
• his ×98
• person ×50
• their ×47
• the life of ×35
• life ×19
• persons ×19
• our ×17
• her ×16
• anyone ×14
• its ×10

Bible verses with H5315 (nephesh)

Nephesh appears in 683 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

• Genesis 1:20

  And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

• Genesis 1:21

  And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

• Genesis 1:24

  And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

• Genesis 1:30

  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

• Genesis 2:7

  And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

• Genesis 2:19

  And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

• Genesis 9:4

  But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

• Genesis 9:5

  And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

• Genesis 9:10

  And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

• Genesis 9:12

  And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

• Genesis 9:15

  And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

• Genesis 9:16

  And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

• Genesis 12:5

  And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

• Genesis 12:13

  Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

• Genesis 14:21

  And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

• Genesis 17:14

  And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

• Genesis 19:17

  And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

• Genesis 19:19

  Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

• Genesis 19:20

  Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

• Genesis 23:8

  And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

• Genesis 27:4

  And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

• Genesis 27:19

  And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

• Genesis 27:25

  And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.

• Genesis 27:31

  And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.

• Genesis 32:30

  And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.