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 Hebrew for [05314]
Zebulun [02074] and Naphtali [05321] were a people [05971] that jeoparded [02778] their lives [05315] unto the death [04191] in the high places [04791] of the field [07704].jeoparded: Heb. exposed to reproach
The river [05158] of Kishon [07028] swept them away [01640], that ancient [06917] river [05158], the river [05158] Kishon [07028]. O my soul [05315], thou hast trodden down [01869] strength [05797].
(For my father [01] fought [03898] for you, and adventured [07993] his life [05315] far [05048], and delivered [05337] you out of the hand [03027] of Midian [04080]:adventured…: Heb. cast his life
And they put away [05493] the strange [05236] gods [0430] from among [07130] them, and served [05647] the Lord [03068]: and his soul [05315] was grieved [07114] for the misery [05999] of Israel [03478].strange…: Heb. gods of strangersgrieved: Heb. shortened
And when I saw [07200] that ye delivered [03467] me not, I put [07760] my life [05315] in my hands [03709], and passed over [05674] against the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and the Lord [03068] delivered [05414] them into my hand [03027]: wherefore then are ye come up [05927] unto me this day [03117], to fight [03898] against me?
And it came to pass, when she pressed [06693] him daily [03117] with her words [01697], and urged [0509] him, so that his soul [05315] was vexed [07114] unto death [04191];vexed: Heb. shortened
And Samson [08123] said [0559], Let me die [05315] [04191] with the Philistines [06430]. And he bowed [05186] himself with all his might [03581]; and the house [01004] fell [05307] upon the lords [05633], and upon all the people [05971] that were therein. So the dead [04191] which he slew [04191] at his death [04194] were more [07227] than they which he slew [04191] in his life [02416].me: Heb. my soul
And the children [01121] of Dan [01835] said [0559] unto him, Let not thy voice [06963] be heard [08085] among us, lest angry [05315] [04751] fellows [0582] run [06293] upon thee, and thou lose [0622] thy life [05315], with the lives [05315] of thy household [01004].angry: Heb. bitter of soul