Strong's Concordance H5315

Original Word: נֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration: nephesh
Phonetic Spelling: neh'-fesh
from H5314; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental); any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.

Usages throughout the bible

Proverbs 27:7 - The full soul H5315 loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul H5315 every bitter thing is sweet.

Proverbs 27:9 - Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty H5315 counsel.

Proverbs 28:17 - A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person H5315 shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

Proverbs 28:25 - He that is of a proud heart H5315 stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

Proverbs 29:10 - The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul. H5315

Proverbs 29:17 - Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. H5315

Proverbs 29:24 - Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: H5315 he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

Proverbs 31:6 - Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. H5315

Ecclesiastes 2:24 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul H5315 enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 4:8 - There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul H5315 of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 6:2 - A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul H5315 of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 6:3 - If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul H5315 be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:7 - All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite H5315 is not filled.

Ecclesiastes 6:9 - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: H5315 this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 7:28 - Which yet my soul H5315 seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

Song of Solomon 1:7 - Tell me, O thou whom my soul H5315 loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

Song of Solomon 3:1 - By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul H5315 loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Song of Solomon 3:2 - I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul H5315 loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Song of Solomon 3:3 - The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul H5315 loveth?

Song of Solomon 3:4 - It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul H5315 loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Song of Solomon 5:6 - I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul H5315 failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Song of Solomon 6:12 - Or ever I was aware, my soul H5315 made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

Isaiah 1:14 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul H5315 hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

Isaiah 3:9 - The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! H5315 for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Isaiah 3:20 - The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, H5315 and the earrings,

Isaiah 5:14 - Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, H5315 and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Isaiah 10:18 - And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul H5315 and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

Isaiah 15:4 - And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life H5315 shall be grievous unto him.

Isaiah 19:10 - And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. H5315

Isaiah 26:8 - Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul H5315 is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

Isaiah 26:9 - With my soul H5315 have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Isaiah 29:8 - It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul H5315 is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul H5315 hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

Isaiah 32:6 - For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul H5315 of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Isaiah 38:15 - What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. H5315

Isaiah 38:17 - Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul H5315 delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Isaiah 42:1 - Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul H5315 delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Isaiah 43:4 - Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. H5315

Isaiah 44:20 - He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, H5315 nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Isaiah 46:2 - They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves H5315 are gone into captivity.

Isaiah 47:14 - Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves H5315 from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

Isaiah 49:7 - Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man H5315 despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

Isaiah 51:23 - But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, H5315 Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

Isaiah 53:10 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul H5315 an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Isaiah 53:11 - He shall see of the travail of his soul, H5315 and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 53:12 - Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul H5315 unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 55:2 - Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul H5315 delight itself in fatness.

Isaiah 55:3 - Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul H5315 shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Isaiah 58:3 - Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, H5315 and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

Isaiah 58:5 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? H5315 is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Isaiah 58:10 - And if thou draw out thy soul H5315 to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; H5315 then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: