# H5397 נְשָׁמָה

נְשָׁמָה (nᵉshâmâh), Strong’s H5397: a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal KJV: blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit…

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*nᵉshâmâh* — a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal

KJV: blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.

Derived from [נָשַׁם nâsham](https://besorah.bible/word/H5395) (to blow away, i.e. destroy)

Occurs 24 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נְשָׁמָה n.f. breath

## Where it occurs
- [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 7:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=22) — All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
- [Deuteronomy 20:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/20?v=16) — But of the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing…
- [Joshua 10:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=40) — So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no…
- [Joshua 11:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/11?v=11) — They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who…
- [Joshua 11:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/11?v=14) — The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every…
- [2 Samuel 22:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=16) — Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the LORD’s rebuke, at the blast…
- [1 Kings 15:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/15?v=29) — As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had…
- [1 Kings 17:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/17?v=17) — After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that…
- [Isaiah 2:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=22) — Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?