H5315 — nephesh
The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.
nephesh — pronounced neh'-fesh
from 5314; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental):--any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it. see H05314
750 occurrences in the KJV.
Psalms 35:4
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Psalms 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Psalms 35:9
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Psalms 35:12
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Psalms 35:17
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Psalms 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Psalms 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Psalms 40:14
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Psalms 41:2
The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Psalms 41:4
I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
Psalms 42:1
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psalms 42:2
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psalms 42:4
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Psalms 42:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalms 42:6
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 42:11
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 43:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 44:25
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Psalms 49:8
(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
Psalms 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Psalms 49:18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
Psalms 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 54:4
Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.
Psalms 55:18
He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms 56:13
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Psalms 57:1
Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Psalms 59:3
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
Psalms 62:1
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
Psalms 62:5
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Psalms 63:1
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalms 63:5
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
Psalms 63:8
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
Psalms 63:9
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Psalms 66:9
Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
Psalms 66:16
Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Psalms 69:1
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Psalms 69:10
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Psalms 69:18
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
Psalms 70:2
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
Psalms 71:10
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
Psalms 71:13
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
Psalms 71:23
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Psalms 72:13
He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
Psalms 72:14
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Psalms 74:19
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Psalms 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psalms 78:50
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms 84:2
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Psalms 86:2
Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psalms 86:4
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms 86:4
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms 86:13
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Psalms 86:14
O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Psalms 88:14
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Psalms 89:48
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psalms 94:17
Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
Psalms 94:19
In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Psalms 94:21
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Psalms 97:10
Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 103:1
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Psalms 103:2
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Psalms 103:22
Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
Psalms 104:1
Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
Psalms 104:35
Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 105:18
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
Psalms 105:22
To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
Psalms 106:15
And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
Psalms 107:5
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Psalms 107:9
For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Psalms 107:9
For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Psalms 107:18
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Psalms 107:26
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psalms 109:20
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
Psalms 109:31
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Psalms 116:4
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Psalms 116:7
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Psalms 116:8
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Psalms 119:20
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
Psalms 119:25
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
Psalms 119:28
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Psalms 119:81
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Psalms 119:109
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
Psalms 119:129
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
Psalms 119:167
My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
Psalms 119:175
Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
Psalms 120:2
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Psalms 120:6
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
Psalms 121:7
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms 124:4
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Psalms 124:5
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
Psalms 124:7
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Psalms 130:5
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Psalms 130:6
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.