Word study · Hebrew
רוּחַ
ru.achH7307spirit
Used 378 times in the tagged text.
H7307G · רוּחַ · spirit
What it means
- wind, breath, mind, spirit
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : spirit
- 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
- 1a) breath
- 1b) wind
- 1b1) of heaven
- 1b2) quarter (of wind), side
- 1b3) breath of air
- 1b4) air, gas
- 1b5) vain, empty thing
- 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
- 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
- 1c2) courage
- 1c3) temper, anger
- 1c4) impatience, patience
- 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
- 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
- 1c7) prophetic spirit
- 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
- 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
- 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
- 1e1) desire
- 1e2) sorrow, trouble
- 1f) spirit
- 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
- 1f2) rarely of the will
- 1f3) as seat especially of moral character
- 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
- 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
- 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
- 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
- 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
- 1g5) as energy of life
- 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
- 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force
H7307H · רוּחַ · spirit: breath
What it means
- wind, breath, mind, spirit
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : breath/wind
- 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
- 1a) breath
- 1b) wind
- 1b1) of heaven
- 1b2) quarter (of wind), side
- 1b3) breath of air
- 1b4) air, gas
- 1b5) vain, empty thing
- 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
- 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
- 1c2) courage
- 1c3) temper, anger
- 1c4) impatience, patience
- 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
- 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
- 1c7) prophetic spirit
- 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
- 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
- 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
- 1e1) desire
- 1e2) sorrow, trouble
- 1f) spirit
- 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
- 1f2) rarely of the will
- 1f3) as seat especially of moral character
- 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
- 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
- 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
- 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
- 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
- 1g5) as energy of life
- 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
- 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force
H7307I · רוּחַ · spirit: side
What it means
- wind, breath, mind, spirit
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : side
- 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
- 1a) breath
- 1b) wind
- 1b1) of heaven
- 1b2) quarter (of wind), side
- 1b3) breath of air
- 1b4) air, gas
- 1b5) vain, empty thing
- 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
- 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
- 1c2) courage
- 1c3) temper, anger
- 1c4) impatience, patience
- 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
- 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
- 1c7) prophetic spirit
- 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
- 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
- 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
- 1e1) desire
- 1e2) sorrow, trouble
- 1f) spirit
- 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
- 1f2) rarely of the will
- 1f3) as seat especially of moral character
- 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
- 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
- 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
- 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
- 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
- 1g5) as energy of life
- 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
- 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force
H7307J · רוּחַ · spirit: temper
What it means
- wind, breath, mind, spirit
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : temper
- 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
- 1a) breath
- 1b) wind
- 1b1) of heaven
- 1b2) quarter (of wind), side
- 1b3) breath of air
- 1b4) air, gas
- 1b5) vain, empty thing
- 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
- 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
- 1c2) courage
- 1c3) temper, anger
- 1c4) impatience, patience
- 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
- 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
- 1c7) prophetic spirit
- 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
- 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
- 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
- 1e1) desire
- 1e2) sorrow, trouble
- 1f) spirit
- 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
- 1f2) rarely of the will
- 1f3) as seat especially of moral character
- 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
- 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
- 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
- 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
- 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
- 1g5) as energy of life
- 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
- 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force
Same idea, other words · Spirit, breath and soul
In both languages the word for spirit also means breath or wind, and the word for soul can mean life itself. Translators have to choose; readers should know there is a choice.
Where it appears
- Genesis11
- Exodus11
- Numbers14
- Deuteronomy2
- Joshua2
- Judges10
- 1 Samuel16
- 2 Samuel3
- 1 Kings11
- 2 Kings5
- 1 Chronicles5
- 2 Chronicles10
- Ezra2
- Nehemiah2
- Job31
- Psalms39
- Proverbs21
- Ecclesiastes24
- Isaiah51
- Jeremiah18
- Lamentations1
- Ezekiel52
- Daniel4
- Hosea7
- Joel2
- Amos1
- Jonah2
- Micah3
- Habakkuk2
- Haggai4
- Zechariah9
- Malachi3
Every use · 101–150 of 378 · BSB
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.
Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
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