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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 · 201–250 of 378 · BSB

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:17רֽוּחַwind

    So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  2. Ecclesiastes 2:26רֽוּחַwind

    To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  3. Ecclesiastes 3:19וְר֥וּחַand breath

    For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

  4. Ecclesiastes 3:21ר֚וּחַ[the] spirit of

    Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

  5. Ecclesiastes 3:21וְר֙וּחַ֙and [the] spirit of

    Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

  6. Ecclesiastes 4:4רֽוּחַwind

    I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  7. Ecclesiastes 4:6רֽוּחַwind

    Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.

  8. Ecclesiastes 4:16רֽוּחַwind

    There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  9. Ecclesiastes 5:16לָרֽוּחַfor the wind

    This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

  10. Ecclesiastes 6:9רֽוּחַwind

    Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  11. Ecclesiastes 7:8ר֖וּחַspirit

    The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

  12. Ecclesiastes 7:8רֽוּחַspirit

    The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

  13. Ecclesiastes 7:9בְּרֽוּחֲךָ֖in spirit your

    Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.

  14. Ecclesiastes 8:8בָּר֙וּחַ֙over the wind

    As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

  15. Ecclesiastes 8:8הָר֔וּחַthe wind

    As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

  16. Ecclesiastes 10:4ר֤וּחַ[the] spirit of

    If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.

  17. Ecclesiastes 11:4ר֖וּחַa wind

    He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.

  18. Ecclesiastes 11:5הָר֔וּחַthe wind

    As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

  19. Ecclesiastes 12:7וְהָר֣וּחַand the spirit

    before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  20. Isaiah 4:4בְּר֥וּחַby a spirit of

    when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

  21. Isaiah 4:4וּבְר֥וּחַand by a spirit of

    when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

  22. Isaiah 7:2רֽוּחַa wind

    When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.

  23. Isaiah 11:2ר֣וּחַ[the] spirit of

    The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him— the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

  24. Isaiah 11:2ר֧וּחַa spirit of

    The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him— the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

  25. Isaiah 11:2ר֤וּחַa spirit of

    The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him— the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

  26. Isaiah 11:2ר֥וּחַa spirit of

    The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him— the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

  27. Isaiah 11:4וּבְר֥וּחַand with [the] breath of

    but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

  28. Isaiah 11:15רוּח֑וֹwind his

    The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

  29. Isaiah 17:13ר֔וּחַa wind

    The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

  30. Isaiah 19:3רֽוּחַ־[the] spirit of

    Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.

  31. Isaiah 19:14ר֣וּחַa spirit of

    The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

  32. Isaiah 25:4ר֥וּחַ[the] breath of

    For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

  33. Isaiah 26:9רוּחִ֥יspirit my

    My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

  34. Isaiah 26:18ר֑וּחַwind

    We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.

  35. Isaiah 27:8בְּרוּח֥וֹby wind his

    By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.

  36. Isaiah 28:6וּלְר֖וּחַand <into> a spirit of

    a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

  37. Isaiah 29:10ר֣וּחַa spirit of

    For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

  38. Isaiah 29:24ר֖וּחַspirit

    Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”

  39. Isaiah 30:1רוּחִ֑יspirit my

    “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.

  40. Isaiah 30:28וְרוּח֞וֹand breath his

    His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.

  41. Isaiah 31:3ר֑וּחַspirit

    But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

  42. Isaiah 32:2ר֖וּחַa wind

    Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

  43. Isaiah 32:15ר֖וּחַspirit

    until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

  44. Isaiah 33:11רוּחֲכֶ֕םbreath your

    You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.

  45. Isaiah 34:16וְרוּח֖וֹand spirit his

    Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.

  46. Isaiah 37:7ר֔וּחַa spirit

    Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”

  47. Isaiah 38:16רוּחִ֔יspirit my

    O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.

  48. Isaiah 40:7ר֥וּחַ[the] breath of

    The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

  49. Isaiah 40:13ר֖וּחַ[the] spirit of

    Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?

  50. Isaiah 41:16וְר֣וּחַand a wind

    You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

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