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Word Study · Strong's H7307 · Hebrew

רוּחַ

ruach

roo'-akh

Strong's 1890 spelling: rûwach

wind

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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)

Rendered in the KJV as

air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).

  • 378
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 32 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 127
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 378 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 127

  • ר֣וּחַ43
  • ר֥וּחַ30
  • רֽוּחַ־19
  • ר֖וּחַ18
  • רֽוּחַ׃18
  • ר֔וּחַ14
  • וְר֥וּחַ13
  • ר֙וּחַ֙12
  • ר֑וּחַ11
  • ר֤וּחַ10
  • וְר֣וּחַ9
  • הָר֔וּחַ6

and 115 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 94

  • [the] spirit of56
  • spirit my27
  • spirit24
  • wind24
  • a wind22
  • a spirit of21
  • a spirit14
  • and a spirit11
  • spirit his11
  • [the] wind10
  • the spirit10
  • [the] breath of8

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

How it parses · 27

  • noun · feminine singular103
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)103
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person feminine singular29
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular24
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular19
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular15
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)13
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)10
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular8
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)6
  • noun · feminine plural6
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsa · 103
  • HNcfsc · 103
  • HNcbsc/Sp1fs · 29
  • HC/Ncfsa · 24
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 19
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 15
  • HC/Ncfsc · 13
  • HR/Ncfsc · 10
  • HRd/Ncfsa · 8
  • HC/R/Ncfsc · 6
  • HNcfpa · 6
  • HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms · 6

All 378, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis11 occurrences
Exodus11 occurrences
Numbers14 occurrences
Deuteronomy2 occurrences
Joshua2 occurrences
Judges10 occurrences
1 Samuel16 occurrences
2 Samuel3 occurrences
1 Kings11 occurrences
2 Kings5 occurrences
1 Chronicles5 occurrences
2 Chronicles10 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Job31 occurrences
Psalms39 occurrences
Proverbs21 occurrences
Ecclesiastes24 occurrences
Isaiah51 occurrences
Jeremiah18 occurrences
Lamentations1 occurrence
Ezekiel52 occurrences
Daniel4 occurrences
Hosea7 occurrences
Joel2 occurrences
Amos1 occurrence
Jonah2 occurrences
Micah3 occurrences
Habakkuk2 occurrences
Haggai4 occurrences
Zechariah9 occurrences
Malachi3 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled רוּחַ

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).