Strongs H5315

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נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh) n-f (neh'-fesh)
Source: from H5314;
Meaning: 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, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.

Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon entry

נֶ֫פֶשׁ 756 n.f. soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, and passion= that which breathes, the breathing substance or beingThe נפשׁ becomes a living beingThe נפשׁ is specif.The נפשׁ as the essential of man stands for the man himselfנפשׁ = seat of the appetites, in all periods (46 t.)נ׳ = seat of emotions and passionsנפשׁ is used occasionally for mental actsנפשׁ for acts of the will is dub.נפשׁ = character is still more dub.נ׳ in D {659}

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