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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 · 151–200 of 378 · BSB

  1. Psalms 55:8מֵר֖וּחַfrom a wind

    I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”

  2. Psalms 76:12ר֣וּחַ[the] spirit of

    He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.

  3. Psalms 77:3רוּחִ֣יspirit my

    I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

  4. Psalms 77:6רוּחִֽיspirit my

    At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:

  5. Psalms 78:8רוּחֽוֹspirit its

    Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

  6. Psalms 78:39ר֥וּחַa wind

    He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

  7. Psalms 83:13רֽוּחַa wind

    Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

  8. Psalms 103:16ר֣וּחַa wind

    when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

  9. Psalms 104:3רֽוּחַ[the] wind

    laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

  10. Psalms 104:4רוּח֑וֹתwinds

    He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.

  11. Psalms 104:29ר֭וּחָםbreath their

    When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

  12. Psalms 104:30ר֭וּחֲךָspirit your

    When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

  13. Psalms 106:33רוּח֑וֹspirit his

    For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

  14. Psalms 107:25ר֣וּחַa wind of

    For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.

  15. Psalms 135:7ר֝וּחַwind

    He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

  16. Psalms 135:17ר֥וּחַ[is] breath

    they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.

  17. Psalms 139:7מֵרוּחֶ֑ךָfrom spirit your

    Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

  18. Psalms 142:3רוּחִ֗יspirit my

    Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.

  19. Psalms 143:4רוּחִ֑יspirit my

    My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.

  20. Psalms 143:7ר֫וּחִ֥יspirit my

    Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.

  21. Psalms 143:10רוּחֲךָ֥spirit your

    Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

  22. Psalms 146:4ר֭וּחוֹbreath his

    When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

  23. Psalms 147:18ר֝וּח֗וֹwind his

    He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.

  24. Psalms 148:8ר֥וּחַwind of

    lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

  25. Proverbs 1:23רוּחִ֑יspirit my

    If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

  26. Proverbs 11:13ר֝֗וּחַspirit

    A gossip reveals a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

  27. Proverbs 11:29ר֑וּחַwind

    He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

  28. Proverbs 14:29ר֝֗וּחַspirit

    A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.

  29. Proverbs 15:4בְּרֽוּחַin spirit

    A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

  30. Proverbs 15:13ר֣וּחַa spirit

    A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.

  31. Proverbs 16:2רוּח֣וֹתspirits

    All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.

  32. Proverbs 16:18רֽוּחַspirit

    Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  33. Proverbs 16:19ר֭וּחַspirit

    It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.

  34. Proverbs 16:32בְּ֝רוּח֗וֹover spirit his

    He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.

  35. Proverbs 17:22וְר֥וּחַand a spirit

    A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

  36. Proverbs 17:27ר֝֗וּחַspirit

    A man of knowledge restrains his words, and a man of understanding maintains a calm spirit.

  37. Proverbs 18:14רֽוּחַ־[the] spirit of

    The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?

  38. Proverbs 18:14וְר֥וּחַand a spirit

    The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?

  39. Proverbs 25:14וְ֭רוּחַand wind

    Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.

  40. Proverbs 25:23ר֣וּחַa wind of

    As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

  41. Proverbs 25:28לְרוּחֽוֹ[belongs] to spirit his

    Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.

  42. Proverbs 27:16ר֑וּחַ[the] wind

    restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.

  43. Proverbs 29:11ר֭וּחוֹspirit his

    A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.

  44. Proverbs 29:23ר֝֗וּחַspirit

    A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

  45. Proverbs 30:4ר֨וּחַ[the] wind

    Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!

  46. Ecclesiastes 1:6הָר֔וּחַthe wind

    The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.

  47. Ecclesiastes 1:6הָרֽוּחַthe wind

    The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.

  48. Ecclesiastes 1:14רֽוּחַwind

    I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

  49. Ecclesiastes 1:17רֽוּחַwind

    So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

  50. Ecclesiastes 2:11ר֔וּחַwind

    Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

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