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

Jeremiah 49:37 - For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: H5315 and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

Jeremiah 50:19 - And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul H5315 shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

Jeremiah 51:6 - Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: H5315 be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

Jeremiah 51:14 - The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, H5315 saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

Jeremiah 51:45 - My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul H5315 from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Jeremiah 52:29 - In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: H5315

Jeremiah 52:30 - In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: H5315 all the persons H5315 were four thousand and six hundred.

Lamentations 1:11 - All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: H5315 see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

Lamentations 1:16 - For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul H5315 is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

Lamentations 1:19 - I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. H5315

Lamentations 2:12 - They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul H5315 was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

Lamentations 2:19 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life H5315 of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Lamentations 3:17 - And thou hast removed my soul H5315 far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

Lamentations 3:20 - My soul H5315 hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

Lamentations 3:24 - The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; H5315 therefore will I hope in him.

Lamentations 3:25 - The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul H5315 that seeketh him.

Lamentations 3:51 - Mine eye affecteth mine heart H5315 because of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 3:58 - O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; H5315 thou hast redeemed my life.

Lamentations 5:9 - We gat our bread with the peril of our lives H5315 because of the sword of the wilderness.

Ezekiel 3:19 - Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. H5315

Ezekiel 3:21 - Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul. H5315

Ezekiel 4:14 - Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul H5315 hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

Ezekiel 7:19 - They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, H5315 neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

Ezekiel 13:18 - And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! H5315 Will ye hunt the souls H5315 of my people, and will ye save the souls H5315 alive that come unto you?

Ezekiel 13:19 - And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls H5315 that should not die, and to save the souls H5315 alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

Ezekiel 13:20 - Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls H5315 to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls H5315 go, even the souls H5315 that ye hunt to make them fly.

Ezekiel 14:14 - Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls H5315 by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 14:20 - Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls H5315 by their righteousness.

Ezekiel 16:5 - None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, H5315 in the day that thou wast born.

Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will H5315 of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

Ezekiel 17:17 - Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons: H5315

Ezekiel 18:4 - Behold, all souls H5315 are mine; as the soul H5315 of the father, so also the soul H5315 of the son is mine: the soul H5315 that sinneth, it shall die.

Ezekiel 18:20 - The soul H5315 that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Ezekiel 18:27 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul H5315 alive.

Ezekiel 22:25 - There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; H5315 they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

Ezekiel 22:27 - Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, H5315 to get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind H5315 was alienated from them.

Ezekiel 23:18 - So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind H5315 was alienated from her, like as my mind H5315 was alienated from her sister.

Ezekiel 23:22 - Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind H5315 is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

Ezekiel 23:28 - For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind H5315 is alienated:

Ezekiel 24:21 - Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul H5315 pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 24:25 - Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, H5315 their sons and their daughters,

Ezekiel 25:6 - For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart H5315 with all thy despite against the land of Israel;

Ezekiel 25:15 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, H5315 to destroy it for the old hatred;

Ezekiel 27:13 - Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons H5315 of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

Ezekiel 27:31 - And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart H5315 and bitter wailing.

Ezekiel 32:10 - Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, H5315 in the day of thy fall.

Ezekiel 33:5 - He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. H5315

Ezekiel 33:6 - But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person H5315 from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

Ezekiel 33:9 - Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. H5315