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Jonah 4:3
(Click on the Strongs Numbers)
Masoretic Text 1524
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
Therefore
H6258
now
O
H3068
LORD
H3947
take
I
beseech
H4994
thee
my
H5315
life
H4480
from
me
H3588
for
it
is
H2896
better
H3588
for
me
to
H4194
die
than
to
H4480
live
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.