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 · 301–350 of 378 · BSB
When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.
And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and told me to declare that this is what the LORD says: “That is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your minds.
And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and told me to declare that this is what the LORD says: “That is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your minds.
And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me,
And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me,
And I will scatter to every wind all the attendants around him and all his troops, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.
This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing.
tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”
All his choice troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken.’
Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.
When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.
And when they ask, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you are to say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water.’ Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.”
Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will come to life.
I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
As I looked on, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.
Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
So I prophesied as He had commanded me, and the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet—a vast army.
I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.’”
And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.
He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long.
He measured the south side to be five hundred cubits long.
And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.
So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.
he said to them, “I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to understand it.”
Thus the goat became very great, but at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off, and four prominent horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.
But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the authority with which he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and given to others.
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived— let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
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