Throat, neck, gullet
H5315
Hebrew
UBS
נֶפֶשׁ
nepheshneh'-fesh
Noun Feminine
Definition
= the part of the body connecting the head to the rest of the body and containing the passageways for blood, air, and food; ≈ associated with breathing, appetite, and life and often used metonymically to refer to the entire body and the personality inhabiting it
Semantic Domains
Creatures
Air
Self
People
Spices
Etymology
from H5314 (נָפַשׁ);
KJV Translations
any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, dead(-ly), desire, (dis-) contented, fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, jeopardy of) life (in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, (she) will, would have it
Occurrences681
Frequency Rank#42