H7307: רוּחַ
rûwach · pronounced roo'-akh · “spirit”
Definition
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)
KJV translates it as: air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).
Word origin: from H7306 (רוּחַ);
Extended definition
1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
1a) breath
1b) wind
1b1) of heaven
1b2) quarter (of wind), side
1b3) breath of air
1b4) air, gas
1b5) vain, empty thing
1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
1c2) courage
1c3) temper, anger
1c4) impatience, patience
1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
1c7) prophetic spirit
1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
1e1) desire
1e2) sorrow, trouble
1f) spirit
1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
1f2) rarely of the will
1f3) as seat especially of moral character
1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
1g5) as energy of life
1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7307 is translated
- the spirit of ×66
- wind ×40
- spirit ×38
- my ×31
- a wind ×29
- a spirit of ×25
- a spirit ×25
- his ×23
- your ×15
- the breath of ×14
- breath ×13
- the wind ×11
Bible verses with H7307 (rûwach)
Rûwach appears in 348 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
- Genesis 3:8
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
- Genesis 6:17
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
- Genesis 7:15
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
- Genesis 7:22
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
- Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
- Genesis 26:35
Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
- Genesis 41:8
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:38
And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
- Genesis 45:27
And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
- Exodus 6:9
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- Exodus 10:13
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:19
And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
- Exodus 14:21
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Exodus 15:8
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Exodus 15:10
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
- Exodus 28:3
And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
- Exodus 31:3
And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
- Exodus 35:21
And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the Lord’s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
- Exodus 35:31
And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
- Numbers 5:14
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
- Numbers 5:30
Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
- Numbers 11:17
And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
- Numbers 11:25
And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
All 348 references
- Numbers 11:26
- Numbers 11:29
- Numbers 11:31
- Numbers 14:24
- Numbers 16:22
- Numbers 24:2
- Numbers 27:16
- Numbers 27:18
- Deuteronomy 2:30
- Deuteronomy 34:9
- Joshua 2:11
- Joshua 5:1
- Judges 3:10
- Judges 6:34
- Judges 8:3
- Judges 9:23
- Judges 11:29
- Judges 13:25
- Judges 14:6
- Judges 14:19
- Judges 15:14
- Judges 15:19
- 1 Samuel 1:15
- 1 Samuel 10:6
- 1 Samuel 10:10
- 1 Samuel 11:6
- 1 Samuel 16:13
- 1 Samuel 16:14
- 1 Samuel 16:15
- 1 Samuel 16:16
- 1 Samuel 16:23
- 1 Samuel 18:10
- 1 Samuel 19:9
- 1 Samuel 19:20
- 1 Samuel 19:23
- 1 Samuel 30:12
- 2 Samuel 22:11
- 2 Samuel 22:16
- 2 Samuel 23:2
- 1 Kings 10:5
- 1 Kings 18:12
- 1 Kings 18:45
- 1 Kings 19:11
- 1 Kings 21:5
- 1 Kings 22:21
- 1 Kings 22:22
- 1 Kings 22:23
- 1 Kings 22:24
- 2 Kings 2:9
- 2 Kings 2:15
- 2 Kings 2:16
- 2 Kings 3:17
- 2 Kings 19:7
- 1 Chronicles 5:26
- 1 Chronicles 9:24
- 1 Chronicles 12:18
- 1 Chronicles 28:12
- 2 Chronicles 9:4
- 2 Chronicles 15:1
- 2 Chronicles 18:20
- 2 Chronicles 18:21
- 2 Chronicles 18:22
- 2 Chronicles 18:23
- 2 Chronicles 20:14
- 2 Chronicles 21:16
- 2 Chronicles 24:20
- 2 Chronicles 36:22
- Ezra 1:1
- Ezra 1:5
- Nehemiah 9:20
- Nehemiah 9:30
- Job 1:19
- Job 4:9
- Job 4:15
- Job 6:4
- Job 6:26
- Job 7:7
- Job 7:11
- Job 8:2
- Job 9:18
- Job 10:12
- Job 12:10
- Job 15:2
- Job 15:13
- Job 15:30
- Job 16:3
- Job 17:1
- Job 19:17
- Job 20:3
- Job 21:4
- Job 21:18
- Job 26:13
- Job 27:3
- Job 28:25
- Job 30:15
- Job 30:22
- Job 32:8
- Job 32:18
- Job 33:4
- Job 34:14
- Job 37:21
- Job 41:16
- Psalms 1:4
- Psalms 11:6
- Psalms 18:10
- Psalms 18:15
- Psalms 18:42
- Psalms 31:5
- Psalms 32:2
- Psalms 33:6
- Psalms 34:18
- Psalms 35:5
- Psalms 48:7
- Psalms 51:10
- Psalms 51:11
- Psalms 51:12
- Psalms 51:17
- Psalms 55:8
- Psalms 76:12
- Psalms 77:3
- Psalms 77:6
- Psalms 78:8
- Psalms 78:39
- Psalms 83:13
- Psalms 103:16
- Psalms 104:3
- Psalms 104:4
- Psalms 104:29
- Psalms 104:30
- Psalms 106:33
- Psalms 107:25
- Psalms 135:7
- Psalms 135:17
- Psalms 139:7
- Psalms 142:3
- Psalms 143:4
- Psalms 143:7
- Psalms 143:10
- Psalms 146:4
- Psalms 147:18
- Psalms 148:8
- Proverbs 1:23
- Proverbs 11:13
- Proverbs 11:29
- Proverbs 14:29
- Proverbs 15:4
- Proverbs 15:13
- Proverbs 16:2
- Proverbs 16:18
- Proverbs 16:19
- Proverbs 16:32
- Proverbs 17:22
- Proverbs 17:27
- Proverbs 18:14
- Proverbs 25:14
- Proverbs 25:23
- Proverbs 25:28
- Proverbs 27:16
- Proverbs 29:11
- Proverbs 29:23
- Proverbs 30:4
- Ecclesiastes 1:6
- Ecclesiastes 1:14
- Ecclesiastes 1:17
- Ecclesiastes 2:11
- Ecclesiastes 2:17
- Ecclesiastes 2:26
- Ecclesiastes 3:19
- Ecclesiastes 3:21
- Ecclesiastes 4:4
- Ecclesiastes 4:6
- Ecclesiastes 4:16
- Ecclesiastes 5:16
- Ecclesiastes 6:9
- Ecclesiastes 7:8
- Ecclesiastes 7:9
- Ecclesiastes 8:8
- Ecclesiastes 10:4
- Ecclesiastes 11:4
- Ecclesiastes 11:5
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
- Isaiah 4:4
- Isaiah 7:2
- Isaiah 11:2
- Isaiah 11:4
- Isaiah 11:15
- Isaiah 17:13
- Isaiah 19:3
- Isaiah 19:14
- Isaiah 25:4
- Isaiah 26:9
- Isaiah 26:18
- Isaiah 27:8
- Isaiah 28:6
- Isaiah 29:10
- Isaiah 29:24
- Isaiah 30:1
- Isaiah 30:28
- Isaiah 31:3
- Isaiah 32:2
- Isaiah 32:15
- Isaiah 33:11
- Isaiah 34:16
- Isaiah 37:7
- Isaiah 38:16
- Isaiah 40:7
- Isaiah 40:13
- Isaiah 41:16
- Isaiah 41:29
- Isaiah 42:1
- Isaiah 42:5
- Isaiah 44:3
- Isaiah 48:16
- Isaiah 54:6
- Isaiah 57:13
- Isaiah 57:15
- Isaiah 57:16
- Isaiah 59:19
- Isaiah 59:21
- Isaiah 61:1
- Isaiah 61:3
- Isaiah 63:10
- Isaiah 63:11
- Isaiah 63:14
- Isaiah 64:6
- Isaiah 65:14
- Isaiah 66:2
- Jeremiah 2:24
- Jeremiah 4:11
- Jeremiah 4:12
- Jeremiah 5:13
- Jeremiah 10:13
- Jeremiah 10:14
- Jeremiah 13:24
- Jeremiah 14:6
- Jeremiah 18:17
- Jeremiah 22:22
- Jeremiah 49:32
- Jeremiah 49:36
- Jeremiah 51:1
- Jeremiah 51:11
- Jeremiah 51:16
- Jeremiah 51:17
- Jeremiah 52:23
- Lamentations 4:20
- Ezekiel 1:4
- Ezekiel 1:12
- Ezekiel 1:20
- Ezekiel 1:21
- Ezekiel 2:2
- Ezekiel 3:12
- Ezekiel 3:14
- Ezekiel 3:24
- Ezekiel 5:2
- Ezekiel 5:10
- Ezekiel 5:12
- Ezekiel 8:3
- Ezekiel 10:17
- Ezekiel 11:1
- Ezekiel 11:5
- Ezekiel 11:19
- Ezekiel 11:24
- Ezekiel 12:14
- Ezekiel 13:3
- Ezekiel 13:11
- Ezekiel 13:13
- Ezekiel 17:10
- Ezekiel 17:21
- Ezekiel 18:31
- Ezekiel 19:12
- Ezekiel 20:32
- Ezekiel 21:7
- Ezekiel 27:26
- Ezekiel 36:26
- Ezekiel 36:27
- Ezekiel 37:1
- Ezekiel 37:5
- Ezekiel 37:6
- Ezekiel 37:8
- Ezekiel 37:9
- Ezekiel 37:10
- Ezekiel 37:14
- Ezekiel 39:29
- Ezekiel 42:16
- Ezekiel 42:17
- Ezekiel 42:18
- Ezekiel 42:19
- Ezekiel 42:20
- Ezekiel 43:5
- Daniel 2:1
- Daniel 2:3
- Daniel 8:8
- Daniel 11:4
- Hosea 4:12
- Hosea 4:19
- Hosea 5:4
- Hosea 8:7
- Hosea 9:7
- Hosea 12:1
- Hosea 13:15
- Joel 2:28
- Joel 2:29
- Amos 4:13
- Jonah 1:4
- Jonah 4:8
- Micah 2:7
- Micah 2:11
- Micah 3:8
- Habakkuk 1:11
- Habakkuk 2:19
- Haggai 1:14
- Haggai 2:5
- Zechariah 2:6
- Zechariah 4:6
- Zechariah 5:9
- Zechariah 6:5
- Zechariah 6:8
- Zechariah 7:12
- Zechariah 12:1
- Zechariah 12:10
- Zechariah 13:2
- Malachi 2:15
- Malachi 2:16