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Proverbs 11:17
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Masoretic Text 1524
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
The
H2617
merciful
H376
man
doeth
H1580
good
to
his
own
H5315
soul
but
he
that
is
H394
cruel
H5916
troubleth
his
own
H7607
flesh
Hebrew-English Dictionary
Strongs: H5315
Hebrew: נֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration: nephesh
Pronunciation: neh'-fesh
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Bible Usage: {any} {appetite} {beast} {body} {breath} {creature} X-(idiom) dead ({-ly}) {desire} X-(idiom) [dis-] {contented} X-(idiom) {fish} {ghost} + {greedy} {he} heart ({-y}) ({hath} X-(idiom) jeopardy of) life (X in {jeopardy}) {lust} {man} {me} {mind} {mortality} {one} {own} {person} {pleasure} ({her-} {him-} {my-} thy-) {self} them (your) {-selves} + {slay} {soul} + {tablet} {they} {thing} (X she) {will} X-(idiom) would have it.
Definition:
properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
1. soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
a. that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
b. living being
c. living being (with life in the blood)
d. the man himself, self, person or individual
e. seat of the appetites
f. seat of emotions and passions
g. activity of mind
1. dubious
h. activity of the will
1. dubious
i. activity of the character
1. dubious
The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.