Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7307

רוּחַ

ru.ach · “spirit

Used 378 times across 32 books

Definition
: spirit
1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
1a) breath
1b) wind
1b1) of heaven
1b2) quarter (of wind), side
1b3) breath of air
1b4) air, gas
1b5) vain, empty thing
1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
1c2) courage
1c3) temper, anger
1c4) impatience, patience
1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
1c7) prophetic spirit
1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
1e1) desire
1e2) sorrow, trouble
1f) spirit
1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
1f2) rarely of the will
1f3) as seat especially of moral character
1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
1g5) as energy of life
1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force
Where it appears
Genesis
11
Exodus
11
Numbers
14
Deuteronomy
2
Joshua
2
Judges
10
1 Samuel
16
2 Samuel
3
1 Kings
11
2 Kings
5
1 Chronicles
5
2 Chronicles
10
Ezra
2
Nehemiah
2
Job
31
Psalms
39
Proverbs
21
Ecclesiastes
24
Isaiah
51
Jeremiah
18
Lamentations
1
Ezekiel
52
Daniel
4
Hosea
7
Joel
2
Amos
1
Jonah
2
Micah
3
Habakkuk
2
Haggai
4
Zechariah
9
Malachi
3
In the text
Genesis 1:2And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.Genesis 3:8And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.Genesis 6:3And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.Genesis 6:17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.Genesis 7:15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.Genesis 7:22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.Genesis 8:1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;Genesis 26:35Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.Genesis 41:8And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.Genesis 41:38And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

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