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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
    occurrencescanonical count
  • 500
    loaded (first 500)book by book, canonical order
  • 16
    books spannedamong loaded text
  • 171
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 loaded 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 · 137

  • life my50
  • self my48
  • self your21
  • [the] life of18
  • the person18
  • life his15
  • life your15
  • self his13
  • being your12
  • <the> person11
  • person11
  • self her11

Contextual glosses as tagged by STEP Bible — the sense the word carries at each spot, not a translation.

Parse codes · 38

  • HNcfsc/Sp1bs133
  • HNcfsa68
  • HNcfsc/Sp2ms46
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms35
  • HTd/Ncfsa34
  • HNcfsc30
  • HNcfsc/Sp3mp13
  • HNcfpc/Sp2mp12
  • HNcfsc/Sp3fs12
  • HR/Ncfsc/Sp1bs12
  • HC/Ncfsc10
  • HNcfsc/Sp1bp10

STEP Bible morphology codes, printed as given. The scheme is documented at STEPBible.org.

500 loaded · first 500 of 754

The ledger of occurrences

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 morphology: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English text: American Standard Version (1901, public domain).