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Ecclesiastes 2:24
(Click on the Strongs Numbers)
Masoretic Text 1524
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
There
is
H369
nothing
H2896
better
for
a
H120
man
than
H3588
that
he
should
H7945
eat
and
H8354
drink
and
H3588
that
he
should
make
his
H7200
soul
enjoy
H2896
good
in
his
H5999
labour
H2090
This
H1571
also
H589
I
H7200
saw
H3588
that
H1931
it
was
from
the
H4480
hand
of
H430
God
Hebrew-English Dictionary
Strongs: H5315
Hebrew: נֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration: nephesh
Pronunciation: neh'-fesh
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Bible Usage: {any} {appetite} {beast} {body} {breath} {creature} X-(idiom) dead ({-ly}) {desire} X-(idiom) [dis-] {contented} X-(idiom) {fish} {ghost} + {greedy} {he} heart ({-y}) ({hath} X-(idiom) jeopardy of) life (X in {jeopardy}) {lust} {man} {me} {mind} {mortality} {one} {own} {person} {pleasure} ({her-} {him-} {my-} thy-) {self} them (your) {-selves} + {slay} {soul} + {tablet} {they} {thing} (X she) {will} X-(idiom) would have it.
Definition:
properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
1. soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
a. that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
b. living being
c. living being (with life in the blood)
d. the man himself, self, person or individual
e. seat of the appetites
f. seat of emotions and passions
g. activity of mind
1. dubious
h. activity of the will
1. dubious
i. activity of the character
1. dubious
The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.