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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #5397 - נְשָׁמָה
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- breath, spirit
- breath (of God)
- breath (of man)
- every breathing thing
- spirit (of man)
- Book
- Word
did not use
this Strong's Number
2443) msn (נסהמ NShM) AC: Pant CO: Breath AB: ?: [from: ms]
V) msn (נסהמ NShM) - Pant: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) destroy - Strongs: H5395 (נָשַׁם)
Nf1) emsn (נסהמה NShMH) - Breath: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (25): breath, blast, spirit, inspiration, soul - Strongs: H5396 (נִשְׁמָה), H5397 (נְשָׁמָה)
if2) tmsnt (תנסהמת TNShMT) - Tinshemet: An unknown animal. KJV (3): swan, mole - Strongs: H8580 (תִּנְשֶׁמֶת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 breath of God as hot wind kindling a flame Isaiah 30:33; as destroying wind 2 Samuel 22:16 = Psalm 18:16; Job 4:9; as cold wind producing ice Job 32:8; Job 33:4.
2 breath of Prayer of Manasseh 1Kings 17:17; Isaiah 42:5; Job 27:3; Daniel 10:7; breath of life נשׁמת חיים Genesis 2:7 (J); compare נִשְׁמַת רוּחַחַיִּים Genesis 7:22 (J); as breathed in by God it is God's breath in man Job 34:14; Job 36:4; and is characteristic of man אדם אשׁר נשׁמה באפו Isaiah 2:22 man in whose nostrils is but a breath (late gloss).
3 synonym נפשׁ כָּל נְשָׁמָה every breathing thing Deuteronomy 20:16; Joshua 11:11,14; 1 Kings 15:29; כָּלהַֿנְּשָׁמָה Joshua 10:14; Psalm 150:6; נְשָׁמוֺת Isaiah 57:16.
4 spirit of Prayer of Manasseh , "" רוּחַ, אָדָם׳נ ׳נֵר י Proverbs 20:27 the spirit of man is a lamp of ׳י.
נְשָׁמָה f.
(1) breath, spirit
(a) the Spirit of God imparting life and wisdom, i.q. רוּחַ אֱלֹהִים; Job 32:8, 33:4 compare 26:4.
(b) the spirit of man, soul, ψυχή (comp. נֶפֶשׁ No. 2), Genesis 2:7; Job 27:3. Meton. (that which has breath), a living creature, animans, i.q. נֶפֶשׁ No. 3, Deuteronomy 20:16; Joshua 10:40. Once used for the mind, Proverbs 20:27.
(2) the panting of those who are angry, used of the anger of God, Isaiah 30:33; Psalms 18:16.