רוּחַ

ru.ach · spirit

Hebrew · Strong's H7307 · Noun · Sounds like: roo'-akh · 378 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • spirit H7307G 216
  • spirit: breath H7307H · a Meaning of 145
  • spirit: temper H7307J · a Meaning of 10
  • spirit: side H7307I · a Meaning of 7

Strong's dictionary

from רוּחַ; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions); air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
רוּחַ 378 n.f. (less oft. m.) breath, wind, spirit
1. breath of mouth or nostrils (33 t.)
2. wind (117 t.)
3. spirit, as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation = temper, disposition (76 t.)
4. spirit of the living, breathing being
5. spirit as seat of emotion
6. occasionally (and late) = seat or organ of mental acts
7. rarely of the will
8. רוּחַ esp. of moral character
9. spirit of God (94 t.)

Every occurrence

  1. Isaiah 31:3 ר֑וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

  2. Isaiah 32:2 ר֖וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

  3. Isaiah 32:15 ר֖וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.

  4. Isaiah 33:11 רוּחֲכֶ֕ם ru.cha.Khem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

  5. Isaiah 34:16 וְרוּח֖וֹ ve.ru.Cho · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

  6. Isaiah 37:7 ר֔וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

  7. Isaiah 38:16 רוּחִ֔י ru.Chi · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.

  8. Isaiah 40:7 ר֥וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

  9. Isaiah 40:13 ר֖וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

  10. Isaiah 41:16 וְר֣וּחַ ve.Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

  11. Isaiah 41:29 ר֥וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.

  12. Isaiah 42:1 רוּחִי֙ ru.Chi · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

  13. Isaiah 42:5 וְר֖וּחַ ve.Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    Thus saith God Jehovah, he that created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

  14. Isaiah 44:3 רוּחִי֙ ru.Chi · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

  15. Isaiah 48:16 וְרוּחֽוֹ׃ פ ve.ru.Cho · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit.

  16. Isaiah 54:6 ר֖וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    For Jehovah hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy God.

  17. Isaiah 57:13 ר֖וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    When thou criest, let them that thou hast gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

  18. Isaiah 57:15 ר֔וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

  19. Isaiah 57:15 ר֣וּחַ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

  20. Isaiah 57:16 ר֙וּחַ֙ Ru.ach · A person, place or thing

    For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

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