Ruach רוּחַ
| רוּחַ | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | ruach |
| Strong's number | H7307 (H7307G, H7307H, H7307J, H7307I) |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | spirit |
| Occurrences | 378 in 348 verses |
| Most frequent in | Isaiah (46) |
Ruach (Hebrew רוּחַ, Strong's H7307) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “spirit”. It occurs 378 times in 348 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
H7307G: spirit
1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
1a) breath
1b) wind
1b1) of heaven
1b2) quarter (of wind), side
1b3) breath of air
1b4) air, gas
1b5) vain, empty thing
1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
1c2) courage
1c3) temper, anger
1c4) impatience, patience
1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
1c7) prophetic spirit
1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
1e1) desire
1e2) sorrow, trouble
1f) spirit
1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
1f2) rarely of the will
1f3) as seat especially of moral character
1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
1g5) as energy of life
1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force
H7307H: spirit: breath
1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
1a) breath
1b) wind
1b1) of heaven
1b2) quarter (of wind), side
1b3) breath of air
1b4) air, gas
1b5) vain, empty thing
1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
1c2) courage
1c3) temper, anger
1c4) impatience, patience
1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
1c7) prophetic spirit
1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
1e1) desire
1e2) sorrow, trouble
1f) spirit
1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
1f2) rarely of the will
1f3) as seat especially of moral character
1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
1g5) as energy of life
1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force
H7307J: spirit: temper
1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
1a) breath
1b) wind
1b1) of heaven
1b2) quarter (of wind), side
1b3) breath of air
1b4) air, gas
1b5) vain, empty thing
1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
1c2) courage
1c3) temper, anger
1c4) impatience, patience
1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
1c7) prophetic spirit
1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
1e1) desire
1e2) sorrow, trouble
1f) spirit
1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
1f2) rarely of the will
1f3) as seat especially of moral character
1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
1g5) as energy of life
1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force
H7307I: spirit: side
1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
1a) breath
1b) wind
1b1) of heaven
1b2) quarter (of wind), side
1b3) breath of air
1b4) air, gas
1b5) vain, empty thing
1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
1c2) courage
1c3) temper, anger
1c4) impatience, patience
1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
1c7) prophetic spirit
1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
1e1) desire
1e2) sorrow, trouble
1f) spirit
1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts
1f2) rarely of the will
1f3) as seat especially of moral character
1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
1g4) as endowing men with various gifts
1g5) as energy of life
1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory
1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | spirit (227), wind (81), breath (27), winds (11), mind (5), spirits (5), side (5), blast (4), vain (2), cool (1), courage (1), anger (1), and 7 other renderings |
|---|---|
| BSB | spirit (136), wind (81), my spirit (26), breath (22), his spirit (8), winds (7), your spirit (6), spirits (4), side (4), sides (3), whose spirit (3), breeze (2), and 50 other renderings |
Topics
Verses
Ruach occurs in 348 verses, listed here by reference.
Genesis (11): 1:2, 3:8, 6:3, 6:17, 7:15, 7:22, 8:1, 26:35, 41:8, 41:38, 45:27
Exodus (10): 6:9, 10:13, 10:19, 14:21, 15:8, 15:10, 28:3, 31:3, 35:21, 35:31
Numbers (12): 5:14, 5:30, 11:17, 11:25, 11:26, 11:29, 11:31, 14:24, 16:22, 24:2, 27:16, 27:18
Judges (10): 3:10, 6:34, 8:3, 9:23, 11:29, 13:25, 14:6, 14:19, 15:14, 15:19
1 Samuel (14): 1:15, 10:6, 10:10, 11:6, 16:13, 16:14, 16:15, 16:16, 16:23, 18:10, 19:9, 19:20, 19:23, 30:12
2 Samuel (3): 22:11, 22:16, 23:2
1 Kings (9): 10:5, 18:12, 18:45, 19:11, 21:5, 22:21, 22:22, 22:23, 22:24
2 Kings (5): 2:9, 2:15, 2:16, 3:17, 19:7
1 Chronicles (4): 5:26, 9:24, 12:18, 28:12
2 Chronicles (10): 9:4, 15:1, 18:20, 18:21, 18:22, 18:23, 20:14, 21:16, 24:20, 36:22
Job (31): 1:19, 4:9, 4:15, 6:4, 6:26, 7:7, 7:11, 8:2, 9:18, 10:12, 12:10, 15:2, 15:13, 15:30, 16:3, 17:1, 19:17, 20:3, 21:4, 21:18, 26:13, 27:3, 28:25, 30:15, 30:22, 32:8, 32:18, 33:4, 34:14, 37:21, 41:16
Psalms (39): 1:4, 11:6, 18:10, 18:15, 18:42, 31:5, 32:2, 33:6, 34:18, 35:5, 48:7, 51:10, 51:11, 51:12, 51:17, 55:8, 76:12, 77:3, 77:6, 78:8, 78:39, 83:13, 103:16, 104:3, 104:4, 104:29, 104:30, 106:33, 107:25, 135:7, 135:17, 139:7, 142:3, 143:4, 143:7, 143:10, 146:4, 147:18, 148:8
Proverbs (20): 1:23, 11:13, 11:29, 14:29, 15:4, 15:13, 16:2, 16:18, 16:19, 16:32, 17:22, 17:27, 18:14, 25:14, 25:23, 25:28, 27:16, 29:11, 29:23, 30:4
Ecclesiastes (20): 1:6, 1:14, 1:17, 2:11, 2:17, 2:26, 3:19, 3:21, 4:4, 4:6, 4:16, 5:16, 6:9, 7:8, 7:9, 8:8, 10:4, 11:4, 11:5, 12:7
Isaiah (46): 4:4, 7:2, 11:2, 11:4, 11:15, 17:13, 19:3, 19:14, 25:4, 26:9, 26:18, 27:8, 28:6, 29:10, 29:24, 30:1, 30:28, 31:3, 32:2, 32:15, 33:11, 34:16, 37:7, 38:16, 40:7, 40:13, 41:16, 41:29, 42:1, 42:5, 44:3, 48:16, 54:6, 57:13, 57:15, 57:16, 59:19, 59:21, 61:1, 61:3, 63:10, 63:11, 63:14, 64:6, 65:14, 66:2
Jeremiah (17): 2:24, 4:11, 4:12, 5:13, 10:13, 10:14, 13:24, 14:6, 18:17, 22:22, 49:32, 49:36, 51:1, 51:11, 51:16, 51:17, 52:23
Lamentations (1): 4:20
Ezekiel (44): 1:4, 1:12, 1:20, 1:21, 2:2, 3:12, 3:14, 3:24, 5:2, 5:10, 5:12, 8:3, 10:17, 11:1, 11:5, 11:19, 11:24, 12:14, 13:3, 13:11, 13:13, 17:10, 17:21, 18:31, 19:12, 20:32, 21:7, 27:26, 36:26, 36:27, 37:1, 37:5, 37:6, 37:8, 37:9, 37:10, 37:14, 39:29, 42:16, 42:17, 42:18, 42:19, 42:20, 43:5
Daniel (4): 2:1, 2:3, 8:8, 11:4
Hosea (7): 4:12, 4:19, 5:4, 8:7, 9:7, 12:1, 13:15
Amos (1): 4:13
Zechariah (9): 2:6, 4:6, 5:9, 6:5, 6:8, 7:12, 12:1, 12:10, 13:2
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).