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רוּחַ

ru.achH7307

spirit

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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

  1. Ezra 1:1ר֙וּחַ֙[the] spirit of

    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:

  2. Ezra 1:5רוּח֔וֹspirit his

    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.

  3. Nehemiah 9:20וְרוּחֲךָ֨and spirit your

    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.

  4. Nehemiah 9:30בְּרוּחֲךָ֛by spirit your

    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.

  5. Job 1:19ר֨וּחַa wind

    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!”

  6. Job 4:9וּמֵר֖וּחַand from [the] breath of

    By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

  7. Job 4:15וְ֭רוּחַand a wind

    Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

  8. Job 6:4רוּחִ֑יspirit my

    For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

  9. Job 6:26וּ֝לְר֗וּחַand to wind

    Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

  10. Job 7:7ר֣וּחַ[is] a breath

    Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

  11. Job 7:11רוּחִ֑יspirit my

    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.

  12. Job 8:2וְר֥וּחַand [will be] a wind

    “How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.

  13. Job 9:18רוּחִ֑יbreath my

    He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

  14. Job 10:12רוּחִֽיspirit my

    You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

  15. Job 12:10וְ֝ר֗וּחַand [the] breath of

    The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

  16. Job 15:2ר֑וּחַwind

    “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

  17. Job 15:13רוּחֶ֑ךָspirit your

    as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?

  18. Job 15:30בְּר֣וּחַby [the] breath of

    He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

  19. Job 16:3ר֑וּחַwind

    Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

  20. Job 17:1רוּחִ֣יspirit my

    “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

  21. Job 19:17ר֭וּחִֽיbreath my

    My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

  22. Job 20:3וְ֝ר֗וּחַand a spirit

    I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

  23. Job 21:4רוּחִֽיspirit my

    Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

  24. Job 21:18ר֑וּחַa wind

    Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

  25. Job 26:13בְּ֭רוּחוֹby wind his

    By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

  26. Job 27:3וְר֖וּחַand [the] spirit of

    as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

  27. Job 28:25לָר֣וּחַfor the wind

    When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,

  28. Job 30:15כָּ֭רוּחַlike the wind

    Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

  29. Job 30:22ר֭וּחַ[the] wind

    You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

  30. Job 32:8רֽוּחַ־[is the] spirit

    But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.

  31. Job 32:18ר֣וּחַ[the] spirit of

    For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.

  32. Job 33:4רֽוּחַ־[the] spirit of

    The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

  33. Job 34:14רוּח֥וֹspirit his

    If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

  34. Job 37:21וְר֥וּחַand [the] wind

    Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

  35. Job 41:16וְ֝ר֗וּחַand a breath

    One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

  36. Psalms 1:4רֽוּחַwind

    Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

  37. Psalms 11:6וְר֥וּחַand [will be] a wind of

    On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

  38. Psalms 18:10רֽוּחַ[the] wind

    He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

  39. Psalms 18:15ר֣וּחַ[the] breath of

    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.

  40. Psalms 18:42ר֑וּחַ[the] wind

    I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

  41. Psalms 31:5ר֫וּחִ֥יspirit my

    Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.

  42. Psalms 32:2בְּרוּח֣וֹin spirit his

    Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

  43. Psalms 33:6וּבְר֥וּחַand by [the] breath of

    By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

  44. Psalms 34:18ר֥וּחַspirit

    The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

  45. Psalms 35:5ר֑וּחַa wind

    May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

  46. Psalms 48:7בְּר֥וּחַwith a wind of

    With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.

  47. Psalms 51:10וְר֥וּחַand a spirit

    Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

  48. Psalms 51:11וְר֥וּחַand [the] spirit of

    Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

  49. Psalms 51:12וְר֖וּחַand a spirit

    Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.

  50. Psalms 51:17ר֪וּחַ[are] a 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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