Strong's H5315 · Hebrew

nephesh

neh'-fesh

from 5314; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H5315

H5315 נֶ֫פֶשׁ soul , living being , life , self , person , desire , appetite , emotion , and passion . = that which breathes , the breathing substance or being . The נפשׁ becomes a living being . The נפשׁ is specif. . The נפשׁ as the essential of man stands for the man himself . נפשׁ = seat of the appetites , in all periods (46 t.) . נ׳ = seat of emotions and passions . נפשׁ is used occasionally for mental acts . נפשׁ for acts of the will is dub. . נפשׁ = character is still more dub. . נ׳ in D

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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