King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5397
Transliteration: neshamah
Phonetic Spelling: (nesh-aw-maw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: breath
Meaning: a puff, wind, angry, vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect, an animal
Word Summary
neshamah: breath
Original Word: נְשָׁמָהTransliteration: neshamah
Phonetic Spelling: (nesh-aw-maw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: breath
Meaning: a puff, wind, angry, vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect, an animal
Strong's Concordance
blast, that breaths, inspiration, soul, spirit From nasham; a puff, i.e. Wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. Or (concretely) an animal -- blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.
see HEBREW nasham
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5397. neshamah
נְשָׁמָה noun feminine breath; — ׳נ Deuteronomy 20:16 9t.; construct נִשְׁמַת (compare LagBN 82) Genesis 2:7 10t.; suffix נִשְׁמָתִי Job 27:3; נִשְׁמָתוֺ 34:14; plural נְשָׁמוֺת Isaiah 57:16; —
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 32:8; 33:4.
2 breath of man 1 Kings 17:17; Isaiah 42:5; Job 27:3; Daniel 10:7; breath of life חיים נשׁמת Genesis 2:7 (J); compare חַיִּים רוּחַ נִשְׁמַת 7:22 (J); as breathed in by God it is God's breath in man Job 34:14; 36:4; and is characteristic of man באפו נשׁמה אשׁר אדם Isaiah 2:22 man in whose nostrils is but a breath (late gloss).
3 synonym נְשָׁמָה כָּל נפשׁ 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 man, "" י ׳נֵר ׳נ אָדָם רוּחַ, Proverbs 20:27 the spirit of man is a lamp of ׳י.