נְשָׁמָה
ne.sha.mah
“breath”
Definition
a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal
from H5395 (נָשַׁם);
- breath, spirit 1a) breath (of God) 1b) breath (of man) 1c) every breathing thing 1d) spirit (of man) Aramaic equivalent: nish.ma (*נִשְׁמָא *"breath" H5396)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
נְשָׁמָה appears 23 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
For Topheth has long been prepared;it has been made ready for the king.Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,with plenty of fire and wood.The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur,sets it ablaze.
as long as my breath is still within meand the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
By the breath of God the ice is formedand the watery expanses are frozen.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.