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Ecclesiastes 6:9
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Masoretic Text 1524
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
H2896
Better
is
the
H4758
sight
of
the
H5869
eyes
than
the
H4480
wandering
of
the
H5315
desire
H2088
this
is
H1571
also
H1892
vanity
and
H7469
vexation
of
H7307
spirit
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.