{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5315",
  "lemma": "נֶפֶשׁ",
  "transliteration": "nephesh",
  "definition": "properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)",
  "kjv": "any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom]…",
  "occurrences": 754,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H5314",
      "lemma": "נָפַשׁ",
      "transliteration": "nâphash",
      "meaning": "to breathe",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H5314"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "נֶ֫פֶשׁ 756 n.f. soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, and passion",
    "1. = that which breathes, the breathing substance or being",
    "2. The נפשׁ becomes a living being",
    "3. The נפשׁ is specif.",
    "4. The נפשׁ as the essential of man stands for the man himself",
    "5. נפשׁ = seat of the appetites, in all periods (46 t.)",
    "6. נ׳ = seat of emotions and passions",
    "7. נפשׁ is used occasionally for mental acts",
    "8. נפשׁ for acts of the will is dub.",
    "9. נפשׁ = character is still more dub.",
    "10. נ׳ in D"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:20",
      "text": "God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:21",
      "text": "God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:24",
      "text": "God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:30",
      "text": "To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:7",
      "text": "The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:19",
      "text": "Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 9:4",
      "text": "But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 9:5",
      "text": "I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 9:10",
      "text": "and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 9:12",
      "text": "God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=12"
    }
  ],
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