H5397Noun, feminine24 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Genesis 2:7נִשְׁמַת
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Joshua 10:40הַנְּשָׁמָה
So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
- 1 Kings 15:29נְשָׁמָה
As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone who breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
- Job 4:9מִנִּשְׁמַת
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
- Psalm 18:15מִנִּשְׁמַת
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
- Isaiah 2:22נְשָׁמָה
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.