Strong's Hebrew · H5397
H5397 nᵉshâmâh
נְשָׁמָה
nesh-aw-maw'
breath
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nᵉshâmâh appears 24 times in Scripture, including Genesis 2:7 and Deuteronomy 20:16. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal
In the King James Version
blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.
Derivation
from H5395 (נָשַׁם);
Appears 24 times in Scripture
“Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.”
“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.”
“Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?”
“The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.”
“So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.”
“The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”
“The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.”
“As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone who breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,”
“Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.”
“The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
