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

Isaiah 58:11 - And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul H5315 in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Isaiah 61:10 - I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul H5315 shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 66:3 - He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul H5315 delighteth in their abominations.

Jeremiah 2:34 - Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls H5315 of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

Jeremiah 3:11 - And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself H5315 more than treacherous Judah.

Jeremiah 4:10 - Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. H5315

Jeremiah 4:19 - My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, H5315 the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 4:30 - And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life. H5315

Jeremiah 4:31 - For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul H5315 is wearied because of murderers.

Jeremiah 5:9 - Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul H5315 be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5:29 - Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul H5315 be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 6:8 - Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul H5315 depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

Jeremiah 6:16 - Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. H5315 But they said, We will not walk therein.

Jeremiah 9:9 - Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul H5315 be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 11:21 - Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, H5315 saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

Jeremiah 12:7 - I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul H5315 into the hand of her enemies.

Jeremiah 13:17 - But if ye will not hear it, my soul H5315 shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

Jeremiah 14:19 - Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul H5315 lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

Jeremiah 15:1 - Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind H5315 could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

Jeremiah 15:9 - She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; H5315 her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 17:21 - Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, H5315 and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 18:20 - Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. H5315 Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Jeremiah 19:7 - And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: H5315 and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 19:9 - And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, H5315 shall straiten them.

Jeremiah 20:13 - Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul H5315 of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

Jeremiah 21:7 - And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: H5315 and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

Jeremiah 21:9 - He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life H5315 shall be unto him for a prey.

Jeremiah 22:25 - And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, H5315 and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 26:19 - Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls. H5315

Jeremiah 31:12 - Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul H5315 shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Jeremiah 31:14 - And I will satiate the soul H5315 of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 31:25 - For I have satiated the weary soul, H5315 and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. H5315

Jeremiah 32:41 - Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. H5315

Jeremiah 34:16 - But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, H5315 to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

Jeremiah 34:20 - I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: H5315 and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 34:21 - And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, H5315 and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

Jeremiah 37:9 - Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, H5315 saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

Jeremiah 38:2 - Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life H5315 for a prey, and shall live.

Jeremiah 38:16 - So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, H5315 I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life. H5315

Jeremiah 38:17 - Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul H5315 shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:

Jeremiah 38:20 - But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul H5315 shall live.

Jeremiah 39:18 - For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life H5315 shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 42:20 - For ye dissembled in your hearts, H5315 when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

Jeremiah 43:6 - Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person H5315 that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.

Jeremiah 44:7 - Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, H5315 to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

Jeremiah 44:14 - So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire H5315 to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

Jeremiah 44:30 - Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; H5315 as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life. H5315

Jeremiah 45:5 - And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life H5315 will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

Jeremiah 46:26 - And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, H5315 and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 48:6 - Flee, save your lives, H5315 and be like the heath in the wilderness.