נְשָׁמָה H5397
- Home gloss
- breath
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- breath
- Note
- Kept apart from רוּחַ "wind / spirit" (31); the two meet in 7:22, נִשְׁמַת־רוּחַ חַיִּים. Prov 20:27, "the breath of the human is the lamp of Adonai"
- Rulings
- 31
Occurrences (2)
Genesis 2
- 2:7 and Elohim shaped the human, dust from the ground, and blew into his nostrils breath of life; and the human became a living soul.
Genesis 7
- 7:22 Everything that had the breath of a spirit of life in its nostrils, of all that was on the parched, died.