נָפַשׁ
na.phash
“be refreshed”
Definition
to breathe; passively, to be breathed upon , i.e. (figuratively) refreshed (as if by a current of air)
a primitive root;
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Occurrences
נָפַשׁ appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Finally, the king and all the people with him arrived, exhausted. And there he refreshed himself.
For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
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