RP370 #1. Hebrew Word Study
נֶפֶשׁ (Htr. nephesh) for Soul (Strongs 5315)

Introduction 1

This bible study includes every verse that contains a translation of the Hebrew word נֶפֶשׁ (Htr. nephesh) which means soul in the Old Testament. To obtain a true understanding of this word these scriptures need to be meditated on and notes made of their meaning in different contexts. This requires putting scriptures together where they seem to have a similar meaning, and then meditating even more. The truth will be revealed by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to guide us into all truth (John 16:13). Wherever this word nephesh appears in the Hebrew, the translation of it is highlighted with bold type and underline. In Hebrew the suffixes and some prepositions are added to the basic word to enhance the meaning, and where this has been done the meaning of the suffix or preposition has been included in highlighted text. Every blessing be to those who seek the truth of God's word.

#1.1 Scriptures for נֶפֶשׁ (Htr. nephesh) for Soul

Genesis 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, in which there is life (Lit. a living soul), I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was the name of it.
9:4 But flesh with the life of it (Lit. its soul), which is the blood of it, you shall you eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had begotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
13 Say, I pray you, you are my sister: that it may be well with me for your sake; and my soul shall live because of you.
14:21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to yourself.
17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.
19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for your life; do not look behind you, neither stay in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you are consumed.
18 And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
19 Behold now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have showed to me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
20 Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape there, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Genesis 23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it is your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
27:4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless you before I die.
19 And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn; I have done according as you told me: arise, I pray you, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.
25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you. And he brought it near to him, and he ate: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it to his father, and said to his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.
32:30 (31) And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved.
34:3 And his soul clung to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly to the damsel.
8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul (Lit. his soul) of my son Shechem longs for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
36:6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
37:21 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him (Lit. strike his soul).
42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
44:30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;
46:15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare to Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;
27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
49:6 O my soul, do not come (Or Do not let my soul come) into their secret; to their assembly, my honour, do not be united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they dug down a wall.

Exodus 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
4:19 And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought your life.
12:4 And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whoever eats that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger, or born in the land.
15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
16:16 This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take you every man for them which are in his tents.
21:23 And if any mischief follow, then you shall give life for life,
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid upon him.
23:9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
30:12 When you take the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you number them; that there is no plague among them, when you number them.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering to the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
31:14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you: everyone who defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work in it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 2:1 And when any (Lit. A soul when he) will offer a meat offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense on it:
4:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
27 And if any one (Lit. one soul) of the common people sin through ignorance, while he does somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
5:1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
2 Or if a soul touches any unclean thing, whether it is a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it is hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
4 Or if a soul swears, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it is hid from him; when he knowsof it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
15 If a soul commits a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with your estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
17 And if a soul sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he did not know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
6:2 If a soul sins, and commits a trespass against the LORD, and lie to his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or has deceived his neighbour;
7:18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
20 But the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain to the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain to the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
25 For whoever eats the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.
27 Whatever soul it is who eats any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination to you:
43 You shall not make yourselves (Lit. your souls) abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.
44 For I am the LORD your God: you shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves (Lit. your souls) with any manner of creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps upon the earth:
16:29 And this shall be a statute for ever to you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it is one of your own country, or a stranger who sojourns among you:
31 It shall be a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.
Leviticus 17:10 And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, who eats any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.
12 Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.
14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life of it: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood of it: whoever eats it shall be cut off.
15 And every soul who eats that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it is one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then shall he be clean.
18:29 For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
19:8 Therefore everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
20:6 And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
25 You shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
21:1 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them, There shall none be defiled for the dead (Lit. a soul) among his people:
11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
22:3 Say to them, Whoever he is of all your seed among your generations, who goes to the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow to the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
4 Whatever man of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or has a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. And whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;
6 The soul who has touched any such shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he washes his flesh with water.
11 But if the priest buys any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he who is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
29 For whatever soul it is that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatever soul it is that does any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
32 It shall be to you a Sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from evening to evening, shall you celebrate your Sabbath.
24:17 And he who kills any man (Lit. soul of mankind) shall surely be put to death.
18 And he who kills a beast (Lit. soul of a beast) shall make it good; beast for beast.
26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
15 And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:
16 I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her Sabbaths, while she lies desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
27:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by your estimation.

Numbers 5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that has an issue, and whoever is defiled by the dead:
6 Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
6:6 All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.
9:6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the Passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
7 And those men said to him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: therefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
10 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the Passover to the LORD.
13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbears to keep the Passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
11:6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
15:27 And if any soul sins through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul who sins ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
29 You shall have one law for him who sins through ignorance, both for him who is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.
30 But the soul that does anything presumptuously, whether he is born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproaches the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
16:38 (17:3) The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.
19:11 He who touches the dead body of any man (Lit. the dead, any soul of man) shall be unclean seven days.
13 Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him who touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
22 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.
21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to circle the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
5 And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.
23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me (Lit. my soul) die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
Numbers 29:7 And you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month a holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall not do any work in it:
30:2 (3) If a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
3 (4) If a woman also vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;
4 (5) And her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
5 (6) But if her father disallows her in the day that he hears; none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
6 (7) And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered anything out of her lips, with which she bound her soul;
7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she bound her soul shall stand.
8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul, of no effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
9 (10) But every vow of a widow, and of her who is divorced, with which they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
10 (12) And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and did not disallow her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.
12 (13) But if her husband has utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
13 (14) Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
31:19 And do you abide without the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
28 And levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all (Lit. the soul of man … were thirty two thousand souls), of women that had not known man by lying with him.
40 And the persons (Lit. soul of man) were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD’S tribute was thirty and two persons.
46 And sixteen thousand persons (Lit. soul of man);
50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man has got, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
35:11 Then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee there, who kills any person (Lit. a soul) at unawares.
15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that everyone who kills any person (Lit. a soul) unawares may flee there.
30 Whoever kills any person (Lit. a soul), the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
31 Moreover you shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them your sons, and your sons’ sons;
15 Take you therefore good heed to yourselves (Lit. your souls); for you saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
29 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
10:12 And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.
11:13 And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
18 Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
12:15 Nevertheless you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatever your soul lusts after, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
20 When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul lusts after.
21 If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatever your soul lusts after.
23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.
13:3 (4) You shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
6 (7) If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, which is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
14:26 And you shall bestow that money for whatever your soul lusts after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,
18:6 And if a Levite come from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose;
Deuteronomy 19:6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him (Lit. his soul); whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he did not hate in time past.
11 But if any man hates his neighbour, and lies in waits for him, and rises up against him, and smites him mortally (Lit. his soul) that he dies, and flees into one of these cities:
21 And your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
21:14 And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she wills (Lit. to her soul); but you shall not sell her at all for money; you shall not make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.
22:26 But to the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbour, and slays him (Lit. kills him a soul), even so is this matter:
23:24 (25) When you come into your neighbour’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes your fill at your own pleasure (Lit. according to your soul); but you shall not put any in your vessel.
24:6 No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge: for he takes a man’s life (Lit. a soul) to pledge.
7 If a man is found stealing any (Lit. a soul) of his brothers of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put evil away from among you.
15 At his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart (Lit. his soul) upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it is sin to you.
26:16 This day the LORD your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.
27:25 Cursed is he who takes reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
28:65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
30:2 And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
10 If you shall hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

Joshua 2:13 And that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if you do not utter this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD has given us the land that we will deal kindly and truly with you.
9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, how that the LORD your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were much afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
10:28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and its king he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were in it; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did to the king of Jericho.
30 And the LORD delivered it also, and its king, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were in it; he let none remain in it; but did to its king as he did to the king of Jericho.
32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it:
37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and its king, and all its cities, and all the souls that were in it; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were in it.
38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:
39 And he took it, and its king, and all its cities; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were in it; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
11:11 And they smote all the souls that were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
20:3 That the slayer who kills any person unawares and unwittingly may flee there: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person at unawares might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cling to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
23:11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves (Lit. your souls), that you love the LORD your God.
14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all are come to pass to you, and not one thing has failed of it.

Judges 5:18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people who risked their lives (Lit. his soul) to the death in the high places of the field.
21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, you have trodden down strength.
9:17 For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
10:16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
12:3 And when I saw that you did not deliver me, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: why then are you come up to me this day, to fight against me?
16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death;
30 And Samson said, Let me (Lit. my soul) die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than those whom he slew in his life.
18:25 And the children of Daniel said to him, Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry (Lit. bitter of soul) fellows run upon you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.

Ruth 4:15 And he shall be to you a restorer ofyour life, and a nourisher of your old age: for your daughter in law, which loves you, which is better to you than seven sons, has born him.

1 Samuel 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, and wept much.
15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
26 And she said, Oh my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman that stood by you here, praying to the LORD.
2:16 And if any man said to him, Do not let them fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would answer him, No; but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
33 And the man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall be to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart: and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, who shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
17:55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I cannot tell.
18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
19:5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel: you saw it, and did rejoice: wherefore then will you sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
11 Saul also sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you shall be slain.
20:1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is my iniquity? and what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?
3 And David swore moreover, and said, Your father certainly knows that I have found grace in your eyes; and he says, Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he is grieved: but truly as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
4 Then said Jonathan to David, Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.
17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
22:2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented (Lit. bitter of soul), gathered themselves to him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
22 And David said to Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father’s house.
23 You stay with me, do not fear: for he who seeks my life seeks your life: but with me you shall be in safeguard.
23:15 And David saw that Saul came out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.
24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against you; yet you hunted my soul to take it.
25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD has withheld you from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
29 Yet a man has risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do you harm, because my soul was precious in your eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
24 And, behold, as your life was much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
28:9 And the woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
21 And the woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said to him, Behold, your handmaid has obeyed your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened to your words which you spoke to me.
30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

2 Samuel 1:9 He said to me again, Stand, I pray you, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
3:21 And Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires.
4:8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul your enemy, which sought your life; and the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
5:8 And David said on that day, Whoever gets up to the gutter, and smites the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain. Therefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
11:11 And Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.
14:7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they said, Deliver him who smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person: yet he does devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman answered and said, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken: for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid:
16:11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeks my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has bidden him.
17:8 For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
18:13 Otherwise I should have worked falsehood against my own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and you yourself would have set yourself against me.
19:5 (6) And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, which this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
23:17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.

1 Kings 1:12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray you, give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
29 And the king swore, and said, As the LORD lives, that has redeemed my soul out of all distress,
2:4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
23 Then king Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
3:11 And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life; neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies; but have asked for yourself understanding to discern judgment;
8:48 And so return to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:
11:37 And I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.
17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray you, let this child’s soul come into him again.
22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
20:31 And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray you, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save your life.
32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Your servant Benhadad says, I pray you, let me (Lit. my soul) live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
39 And as the king passed by, he cried to the king: and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he is missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.
42 And he said to him, Thus says the LORD, Because you have let go out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.

2 Kings 1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said to him, O man of God, I pray you, let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.
14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in your sight.
2:2 And Elijah said to Elisha, Wait here, I pray you; for the LORD has sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said to him, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel.
4 And Elijah said to him, Elisha, wait here, I pray you; for the LORD has sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho.
6 And Elijah said to him, Wait, I pray you, here; for the LORD has sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And they two went on.
4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD has hid it from me, and has not told me.
30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And he arose, and followed her.
7:7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it is your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
12:4 (5) And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passes the account, the money that every man (Lit. of the souls of his estimation) is set at, and all the money that comes into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
25 And like to him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

1 Chronicles 5:21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and (souls) of men an hundred thousand.
11:19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build you the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.

2 Chronicles 1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of your enemies, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king:
6:38 If they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:
15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

Esther 4:13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Do not think within yourself (Lit. in your soul) that you shall escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
Esther 7:3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Esther 8:11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
Esther 9:16 But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they did not lay their hands on the prey,
Esther 9:31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves (Lit. their souls) and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

Job 2:4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.
6 And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand; but save his life.
3:20 Therefore is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
6:7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
11 What is my strength that I should hope? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
15 So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
9:21 Though I were perfect, yet I would not know my soul: I would despise my life.
10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost (Lit. the breathing out of the soul).
12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
13:14 Therefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
16:4 I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
18:4 He tears himself (Lit. his soul) in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
19:2 How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
21:25 And another dies in the bitterness of his soul (Lit. in a bitter soul), and never eats with pleasure.
23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.
24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cry out: yet God does not lay folly to them.
27:2 As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul;
8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?
30:16 And now my soul is poured out in me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
25 Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
31:30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
39 If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their life (Lit. the soul of its owners to expire):
32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself (Lit. his soul) rather than God.
33:18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty meat.
21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
22 Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
29 Lo, all these things works God oftentimes with man,
33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
36:14 They die (Lit. their soul dies) in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
41:21 (13) His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

Psalm 3:2 (3) Many there are which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
6:3 (4) My soul is also sore vexed: but you, O LORD, how long?
4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies’ sake.
7:2 (3) Lest he tears my soul like a lion, tearing it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
5 (6) Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honour in the dust. Selah.
10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.
11:1 In the LORD I put my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
13:2 (3) How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
16:10 For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies (Lit. enemies against the soul), who encircle me about.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
19:7 (8) The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
22:20 (21) Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
22:29 (30) All those who are fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all those who go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
23:3 He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
24:4 He who has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
25:1 to you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
12 What man is he who fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
25:20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: do not let me be ashamed; for I put my trust in you.
26:9 Do not gather my soul with sinners, or my life with bloody men:
27:12 Do not deliver me over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
30:3 (4) O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
31:7 (8) I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;
9 (10) Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.
13 (14) For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
Psalm 34:2 (3) My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
22 (23) The LORD redeems the soul of his servants: and none of those who trust in him shall be desolate.
35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against those who persecute me: say to my soul, I am your salvation.
4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
7 For without cause have they hid their net for me in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
17 Lord, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
25 Do not let them say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it (Lit. our soul): do not let them say, We have swallowed him up.
38:12 (13) Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me: and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
40:14 (15) Let them be ashamed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
41:1 Blessed is he who considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
2 (3) The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: you will make all his bed in his sickness.
4 (5) I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.
42:1 (2) As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.
2 (3) My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
3 (4) My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?
4 (5) When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
5 (6) Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
6 (7) O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
43:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
44:25 (26) For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly clings to the earth.
49:8 (9) (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases for ever:)
15 (16) But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
18 (19) Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise you, when you do well for yourself.
54:3 (5) For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
4 (6) Behold, God is my helper: the Lord is with those who uphold my soul.
55:18 (19) He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
Psalm 56:6 (7) They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
13 (14) For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
57:1 (2) Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusts in you: yes, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities are past.
4 (5) My soul is among lions: and I lie even among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
6 (7) They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dug a pit before me, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.
59:3 (4) For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
62:1 (2) Truly my soul waits upon God: from him comes my salvation.
5 (6) My soul, wait you only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
63:1 (2) O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
5 (6) My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:
8 (9) My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me.
9 (10) But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
66:9 Who holds our soul in life, and does not allow our feet to be moved.
16 Come and hear, all you that fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my soul.
69:1 (2) Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.
69:10 (11) When I wept, and humbled my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
18 (19) Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
70:2 (3) Let them be ashamed and confounded who seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
71:10 For my enemies speak against me; and those who lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.
72:13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
74:19 O do not deliver the soul of your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked: do not forget the congregation of your poor forever.
77:2 (3) In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and did not cease: my soul refused to be comforted.
78:18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
78:50 He made a way to his anger; he did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
84:2 (3) My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
86:2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O you my God, save your servant that trusts in you.
4 Rejoice the soul of your servant: for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
13 For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them.
Psalm 88:3 (4) For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave.
14 (15) LORD, why do you cast off my soul? why do you hide your face from me?
89:48 (49) What man is he who lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
94:17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
97:10 You who love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits:
22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
104:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honour and majesty.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Praise the LORD.
105:18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he (Lit. his soul) was laid in iron:
22 To bind his princes at his pleasure (Lit. his soul); and teach his senators wisdom.
106:15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
9 For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.
18 Their soul abhors all manner of meat; and they draw near to the gates of death.
26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
109:20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of those who speak evil against my soul.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul.
116:4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech you, deliver my soul.
7 Return to your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
8 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
119:20 My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your judgments at all times.
25 My soul clings to the dust: make me alive according to your word.
28 My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen you me according to your word.
81 My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.
109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep them.
167 My soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
175 Let my soul live and it shall praise you; and let your judgments help me.
120:2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
6 My soul has long dwelt with him who hates peace.
121:7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul.
123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
124:4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Psalm 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, and in his word do I hope.
6 My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning: I say, more than those who watch for the morning.
131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself (Lit. my soul), as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
138:3 In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.
139:14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
141:8 But my eyes are to you, O GOD the Lord: my trust is in you; do not leave my soul destitute.
142:4 (5) I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
7 (8) Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name: the righteous shall compass me about; for you shall deal bountifully with me.
143:3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those who have been long dead.
6 I stretch forth my hands to you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.
8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for in you do I trust: cause me to know the way in which I should walk; for I lift up my soul to you.
11 Quicken me, O LORD, for your name’s sake: for your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
12 And of your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul: for I am your servant.
146:1 Praise you the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

Proverbs 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners of it.
2:10 When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;
3:22 So shall they be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.
6:16 These six things the LORD hates: yes, seven are an abomination to him (Lit. his soul):
26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
32 But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he who does it destroys his own soul.
7:23 Till a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.
8:36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul: all those who hate me love death.
10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the substance of the wicked.
11:17 The merciful man does good to his own soul: but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he who waters shall be watered also himself.
11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he who wins souls is wise.
12:10 A righteous man regards the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
13:2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
3 He who keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
8 The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor does not hear rebuke.
19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
25 The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
14:10 The heart knows his own bitterness (Lit. the bitterness of his soul; and a stranger does not intermeddle with his joy.
25 A true witness delivers souls: but a deceitful witness speaks lies.
15:32 He who refuses instruction despises his own soul: but he who hears reproof gets understanding.
16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he who keeps his way preserves his soul.
24 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
26 He (Lit. The soul of him) who labours, labours for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.
18:7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 19:2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he who hastens with his feet sins.
8 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul: he who understands shall find good.
15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
16 He who keeps the commandment keeps his own soul; but he who despises his ways shall die.
18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not let your soul spare for his crying.
20:2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
21:10 The soul of the wicked desires evil: his neighbour finds no favour in his eyes.
23 Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
22:25 Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.
23:2 And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite (Lit. master of a soul).
7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
14 You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.
24:12 If you say, Behold, we did not know it; does not he who ponders the heart consider it? and he who keeps your soul, does he not know it? and shall he not render to every man according to his works?
13 My son, eat you honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste:
14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.
25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him: for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
27:7 The full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel (Lit. the counsel of the soul).
28:17 A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man prevent him.
25 He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife: but he who puts his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
29:10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
17 Correct your son and he shall give you rest; yes, he shall give delight to your soul.
24 Whoever is partner with a thief hates his own soul: he hears cursing, and does not betray it.
31:6 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to those who are of heavy hearts.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yes, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yes, it is a sore travail.
6:2 A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
7:28 Which yet my soul seeks, but I do not find: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

Song of Solomon 1:7 Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where do you feed, where do you make your flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions?
3:1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him.
2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him.
3 The watchmen who go about the city found me: to whom I said, Did you see him whom my soul loves?
4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
6:12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them.
3:9 The show of their countenance witnesses against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves.
3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets (Lit. houses of the soul), and the earrings,
5:14 Therefore hell has enlarged herself (Lit. her soul), and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices, shall descend into it.
10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard bearer faints.
15:4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.
19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes of it, all that make reward shall be grieved in soul.
26:8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of you.
9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
32:6 For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
38:15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and he himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
43:4 Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honourable, and I have loved you: therefore will I give men for you, and people for your life.
Isaiah 44:20 He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves (Lit. their soul) are gone into captivity.
47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves (Lit. their soul) from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
49:7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises (Lit. the despised of soul), to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
51:23 But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you; which have said to your soul, Bow down that we may go over: and you have laid your body as the ground, and as the street, to those who went over.
53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul to death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which does not satisfy? hearken diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
56:11 Yes, they are greedy (Lit. strong of soul) dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
58:3 Why have we fasted, say they, and you do not see? why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
58:10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness will be as the noonday:
11 And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
66:3 He who kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he who offers an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he who burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

Jeremiah 2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind at her pleasure (Lit. the desire of her soul); in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
3:11 And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself (Lit. her soul) more than treacherous Judah.
4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the soul.
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
4:30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you put on ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who bewails herself, who spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
5:9 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
6:8 Be you instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.
16 Thus says the LORD, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.
9:9 (8) Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
11:21 Therefore thus says the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek your life, saying, Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, that you do not die by our hand:
12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
13:17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’S flock is carried away captive.
14:19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
15:1 Then said the LORD to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
9 She who has borne seven languishes: she has breathed out her life; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.
17:21 Thus says the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.
19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of those who seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straightness, with which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Jeremiah 20:13 Sing to the LORD, praise you the LORD: for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
21:7 And afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
9 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he who goes out, and falls to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.
22:25 And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
27 But to the land to which they desire (Lit. lift up their soul) to return, there shall they not return.
26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
34:16 But you turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.
34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat for the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up from you.
37:9 Thus says the LORD; Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
38:2 Thus says the LORD, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD lives, that made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men that seek your life.
17 Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If you will assuredly go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house:
20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beseech you, the voice of the LORD, which I speak to you: so it shall be well to you, and your soul shall live.
39:18 For I will surely deliver you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you: because you have put your trust in me, says the LORD.
40:14 And said to him, Do you certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay you (Lit. strike your soul)? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.
15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray you, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he slay you, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
Jeremiah 42:20 For you dissembled in your hearts, when you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.
43:6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king’s daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
44:7 Therefore now thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Why do you commit this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire (Lit. lift up their soul) to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
44:30 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
45:5 And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, says the LORD: but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.
46:26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD.
48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
49:37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, says the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
14 The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself (Lit. his soul), saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against you.
45 My people, go you out of the midst of her, and deliver you every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
52:29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
52:30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

Lamentations 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders died in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger in the top of every street.
3:17 And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.
3:20 My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
51 My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
58 O Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
5:9 We got our bread with risk of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Ezeekiel 1:19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous does not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he has been warned; also you have delivered your soul.
4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither did their abominable flesh come into my mouth.
7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumbling-block of their iniquity.
13:18 And say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and will you save the souls alive that come to you?
19 And will you pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that you hunt to make them fly.
14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord GOD.
14:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
16:5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out in the open field, to the loathing of your person, in the day that you were born.
27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of your lewd way.
17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, it shall die.
18:20 The soul who sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father; neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst of it.
27 Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their fornication, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
18 So she discovered her fornications, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your mind is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side;
28 For thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your mind is alienated:
24:21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellence of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.
25 Also, you son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that upon which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
25:6 For thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your despite against the land of Israel;
15 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in your market.
31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
32:10 Yes, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he who takes warning shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
36:5 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the remainder of the heathen, and against all Idumea, who have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
47:9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that lives, which moves, wherever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come there: for they shall be healed; and everything shall live where the river comes.

Hosea 4:8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
9:4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat of it shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

Amos 2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
15 Neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself.
6:8 The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellence of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is in it.

Jonah 1:14 Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, We beseech you, O LORD, we beseech you, do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not lay upon us innocent blood: for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.

2:5 (6) The waters enclosed around me, even to the soul: the depth closed around me, the weeds were wrapped around my head.
7 (8) When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Micah 6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
7:1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fruit.
3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he utters his mischievous desire (Lit. the mischief of his soul): so they wrap it up.

Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
5 Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all people:
2:10 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.

Haggai 2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

Zechariah 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

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