נֶפֶשׁ

Derivation

from H5314 (נָפַשׁ);

Meaning

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

In the King James Version

any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.

Translated as

soul (359), life (86), souls (52), lives (16), person (14), persons (12), heart (12), mind (10), creature (9), body (7), yourselves (6), himself (6), dead (4), will (4), minds (4), desire (4), man (3), any (3), pleasure (3), themselves (3)

Where it appears

Found in 600 verses

Genesis

1:20, 1:21, 1:24, 1:30, 2:19, 9:4, 9:5, 9:10, 9:12, 9:15, 9:16, 12:5, 12:13, 14:21, 17:14, 19:17, 19:19, 19:20, 23:8, 27:4 + 16 more

Exodus

1:5, 12:4, 12:15, 12:16, 12:19, 15:9, 16:16, 21:23, 21:30, 23:9, 30:12, 31:14

Leviticus

2:1, 4:2, 4:27, 5:1, 5:2, 5:4, 5:15, 5:17, 6:2, 7:18, 7:20, 7:21, 7:25, 7:27, 11:10, 11:43, 11:44, 11:46, 16:29, 16:31 + 28 more

Numbers

5:6, 6:11, 9:6, 9:7, 9:10, 9:13, 11:6, 15:27, 15:28, 15:30, 15:31, 16:38, 19:11, 19:13, 19:18, 19:20, 19:22, 21:4, 21:5, 23:10 + 21 more

Deuteronomy

4:9, 4:15, 6:5, 10:22, 11:18, 12:15, 12:20, 12:21, 12:23, 13:6, 14:26, 18:6, 19:6, 19:11, 19:21, 21:14, 22:26, 23:24, 24:6, 24:7 + 3 more

Joshua

2:13, 2:14, 9:24, 10:28, 10:30, 10:32, 10:35, 10:37, 10:39, 11:11, 20:3, 20:9, 23:11, 23:14

Judges

5:18, 5:21, 9:17, 10:16, 12:3, 16:16, 16:30, 18:25

Ruth

4:15

1 Samuel

1:10, 1:15, 1:26, 2:16, 2:33, 2:35, 17:55, 18:1, 18:3, 19:5, 19:11, 20:1, 20:3, 20:4, 20:17, 22:2, 22:22, 22:23, 23:15, 23:20 + 8 more

2 Samuel

1:9, 3:21, 4:8, 4:9, 5:8, 11:11, 14:7, 14:14, 14:19, 16:11, 17:8, 18:13, 19:5, 23:17

1 Kings

1:12, 1:29, 2:4, 2:23, 3:11, 8:48, 11:37, 17:21, 17:22, 19:2, 19:3, 19:4, 19:10, 19:14, 20:31, 20:32, 20:39, 20:42

2 Kings

1:13, 1:14, 2:2, 2:4, 2:6, 4:27, 4:30, 7:7, 9:15, 10:24, 12:4, 23:3, 23:25

1 Chronicles

5:21, 11:19, 22:19, 28:9

2 Chronicles

1:11, 6:38, 15:12, 34:31

Esther

4:13, 7:3, 7:7, 8:11, 9:16, 9:31

Job

6:7, 7:15, 9:21, 10:1, 12:10, 13:14, 14:22, 16:4, 18:4, 19:2, 21:25, 23:13, 24:12, 30:16, 30:25, 32:2, 33:18, 33:20, 33:22, 33:28 + 3 more

Psalms

3:2, 6:3, 6:4, 7:2, 7:5, 10:3, 11:1, 11:5, 13:2, 16:10, 17:9, 17:13, 19:7, 22:20, 23:3, 24:4, 25:13, 25:20, 26:9, 27:12 + 98 more

Proverbs

1:19, 3:22, 6:30, 8:36, 10:3, 11:17, 11:25, 11:30, 12:10, 13:2, 13:3, 13:4, 13:8, 13:19, 13:25, 14:10, 14:25, 15:32, 16:24, 16:26 + 20 more

Ecclesiastes

2:24, 4:8, 6:2, 6:3, 6:7, 6:9, 7:28

Song of Solomon

1:7, 3:1, 3:2, 3:3, 3:4, 5:6, 6:12

Isaiah

1:14, 3:9, 3:20, 5:14, 10:18, 15:4, 26:8, 26:9, 29:8, 32:6, 38:17, 42:1, 44:20, 46:2, 47:14, 49:7, 51:23, 53:10, 53:11, 53:12 + 9 more

Jeremiah

2:24, 2:34, 3:11, 4:19, 4:31, 5:9, 5:29, 6:8, 6:16, 9:9, 11:21, 12:7, 13:17, 14:19, 15:1, 15:9, 17:21, 18:20, 19:7, 19:9 + 33 more

Lamentations

1:11, 1:16, 2:12, 2:19, 3:17, 3:20, 3:24, 3:25, 3:51, 3:58, 5:9

Ezekiel

4:14, 7:19, 13:18, 13:19, 13:20, 14:14, 14:20, 16:5, 16:27, 18:4, 18:20, 18:27, 22:25, 22:27, 23:17, 23:18, 23:22, 23:28, 24:21, 24:25 + 8 more

Hosea

4:8, 9:4

Amos

6:8

Jonah

1:14, 2:5, 2:7, 4:3, 4:8

Micah

7:1, 7:3

Habakkuk

2:4, 2:5

Haggai

2:13

Zechariah

11:8