Strong's H7307 · Hebrew

ruwach

roo'-akh

from 7306; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H7307

H7307 רוּחַ breath , wind , spirit . breath of mouth or nostrils (33 t.) . wind (117 t.) . spirit , as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation = temper , disposition (76 t.) . spirit of the living, breathing being . spirit as seat of emotion . occasionally (and late) = seat or organ of mental acts . rarely of the will . רוּחַ esp. of moral character . spirit of God (94 t.)

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

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