# H5315 נֶפֶשׁ

נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh), Strong’s H5315: 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…

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*nephesh* — 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]…

Derived from [נָפַשׁ nâphash](https://besorah.bible/word/H5314) (to breathe)

Occurs 754 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20) — God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…
- [Genesis 1:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=21) — God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…
- [Genesis 1:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=24) — God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the…
- [Genesis 1:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=30) — To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there…
- [Genesis 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=7) — The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became…
- [Genesis 2:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=19) — 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…
- [Genesis 9:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=4) — But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
- [Genesis 9:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=5) — I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of…
- [Genesis 9:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=10) — and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of…
- [Genesis 9:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=12) — God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with…