MannaFest

Word Study · Strong's H5315 · Hebrew

נֶפֶשׁ

nephesh

neh'-fesh

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

Rendered in the KJV as

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

  • 754
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 171
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 171

  • נַפְשִׁ֑י30
  • נֶ֣פֶשׁ23
  • נַפְשִֽׁי׃20
  • הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ14
  • נַפְשִׁ֖י14
  • נֶ֖פֶשׁ13
  • נַ֭פְשִׁי12
  • נֶ֥פֶשׁ11
  • נֶ֔פֶשׁ11
  • נַפְשִׁ֗י11
  • נַפְשְׁךָ֖11
  • נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃10

and 159 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 136

  • life my50
  • self my48
  • the person29
  • self your21
  • [the] life of18
  • life his15
  • life your15
  • self his13
  • being your12
  • person11
  • self her11
  • selves your11

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 38

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular133
  • noun · feminine singular68
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular46
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular35
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular34
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)30
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural13
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural12
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular12
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular12
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)10
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural10
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsc/Sp1bs · 133
  • HNcfsa · 68
  • HNcfsc/Sp2ms · 46
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 35
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 34
  • HNcfsc · 30
  • HNcfsc/Sp3mp · 13
  • HNcfpc/Sp2mp · 12
  • HNcfsc/Sp3fs · 12
  • HR/Ncfsc/Sp1bs · 12
  • HC/Ncfsc · 10
  • HNcfsc/Sp1bp · 10

The first 500 of 754, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Psalms carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis43 occurrences
Exodus17 occurrences
Leviticus60 occurrences
Numbers50 occurrences
Deuteronomy35 occurrences
Joshua16 occurrences
Judges10 occurrences
Ruth1 occurrence
1 Samuel34 occurrences
2 Samuel17 occurrences
1 Kings23 occurrences
2 Kings15 occurrences
1 Chronicles5 occurrences
2 Chronicles4 occurrences
Job26 occurrences
Psalms144 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).