נֶ֫פֶשׁ

ne.phesh

Hebrew H5315 Noun, feminine 754 occurrences in 683 verses
נֶ֫פֶשׁ soul

1. soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion

a. that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man

b. living being

c. living being (with life in the blood)

d. the man himself, self, person or individual

e. seat of the appetites

f. seat of emotions and passions

g. activity of mind

1. uncertain

h. activity of the will

1. uncertain

i. activity of the character

1. uncertain

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 683 verses

  1. Jeremiah 38:17 נַפְשֶׁ֔ךָ

    Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.

  2. Jeremiah 38:20 נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃

    “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.

  3. Jeremiah 39:18 נַפְשְׁךָ֙

    For I will surely rescue you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will escape with your life like a spoil of war, declares the LORD.’”

  4. Jeremiah 40:14 נָ֑פֶשׁ

    and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.

  5. Jeremiah 40:15 נֶּ֗פֶשׁ

    Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”

  6. Jeremiah 42:20 בְּנַפְשֽׁוֹתֵיכֶם֒

    For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’

  7. Jeremiah 43:6 הַנֶּ֗פֶשׁ

    the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.

  8. Jeremiah 44:7 נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵכֶ֔ם

    So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

  9. Jeremiah 44:14 נַפְשָׁם֙

    so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”

  10. Jeremiah 44:30 נַפְשׁ֑וֹנַפְשֽׁוֹ׃ס

    This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.”

  11. Jeremiah 45:5 נַפְשְׁךָ֙

    But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”

  12. Jeremiah 46:26 נַפְשָׁ֔ם

    I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.

  13. Jeremiah 48:6 נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם

    ‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’

  14. Jeremiah 49:37 נַפְשָׁ֗ם

    So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.

  15. Jeremiah 50:19 נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

    I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.

  16. Jeremiah 51:6 נַפְשׁ֔וֹ

    Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

  17. Jeremiah 51:14 בְּנַפְשׁ֑וֹ

    The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”

  18. Jeremiah 51:45 נַפְשׁ֑וֹ

    Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.

  19. Jeremiah 52:29 נֶ֕פֶשׁ

    in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;

  20. Jeremiah 52:30 נֶ֕פֶשׁנֶ֕פֶשׁ

    in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.

  21. Lamentations 1:11 נָ֑פֶשׁ

    All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.

  22. Lamentations 1:16 נַפְשִׁ֑י

    For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

  23. Lamentations 1:19 נַפְשָֽׁם׃ס

    I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

  24. Lamentations 2:12 נַפְשָׁ֔ם

    They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

  25. Lamentations 2:19 נֶ֙פֶשׁ֙

    Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

  26. Lamentations 3:17 נַפְשִׁ֖י

    My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

  27. Lamentations 3:20 נַפְשִֽׁי׃

    Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

  28. Lamentations 3:24 נַפְשִׁ֔י

    “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

  29. Lamentations 3:25 לְנֶ֖פֶשׁ

    The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

  30. Lamentations 3:51 לְנַפְשִׁ֔י

    My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

  31. Lamentations 3:58 נַפְשִׁ֖י

    You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.

  32. Lamentations 5:9 בְּנַפְשֵׁ֙נוּ֙

    We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

  33. Ezekiel 3:19 נַפְשְׁךָ֥

    But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.

  34. Ezekiel 3:21 נַפְשְׁךָ֥

    But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”

  35. Ezekiel 4:14 נַפְשִׁ֖י

    “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

  36. Ezekiel 7:19 נַפְשָׁם֙

    They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.

  37. Ezekiel 13:18 נְפָשׁ֑וֹתהַנְּפָשׁוֹת֙וּנְפָשׁ֖וֹת

    and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own?

  38. Ezekiel 13:19 נְפָשׁוֹת֙נְפָשׁ֖וֹת

    You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.

  39. Ezekiel 13:20 הַנְּפָשׁוֹת֙הַנְּפָשׁ֔וֹתנְפָשִׁ֖ים

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: See, I am against the magic charms with which you ensnare souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. So I will free the souls you have ensnared like birds.

  40. Ezekiel 14:14 נַפְשָׁ֔ם

    then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

  41. Ezekiel 14:20 נַפְשָֽׁם׃פ

    then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.

  42. Ezekiel 16:5 נַפְשֵׁ֔ךְ

    No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.

  43. Ezekiel 16:27 בְּנֶ֤פֶשׁ

    Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.

  44. Ezekiel 17:17 נְפָשׁ֥וֹת

    Pharaoh with his mighty army and vast horde will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.

  45. Ezekiel 18:4 הַנְּפָשׁוֹת֙כְּנֶ֧פֶשׁוּכְנֶ֥פֶשׁהַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ

    Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.

  46. Ezekiel 18:20 הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ

    The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.

  47. Ezekiel 18:27 נַפְשׁ֥וֹ

    But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

  48. Ezekiel 22:25 נֶ֣פֶשׁ

    The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.

  49. Ezekiel 22:27 נְפָשׁ֔וֹת

    Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

  50. Ezekiel 23:17 נַפְשָׁ֖הּ

    Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

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