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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where soul appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 1313 verses Exodus 44 verses Leviticus 3227 verses Numbers 2422 verses Deuteronomy 1816 verses Joshua 11 verses Judges 33 verses 1 Samuel 1916 verses 2 Samuel 55 verses 1 Kings 66 verses 2 Kings 77 verses 1 Chronicles 11 verses 2 Chronicles 33 verses Job 2524 verses Psalms 132130 verses Proverbs 3836 verses Ecclesiastes 55 verses Song of Solomon 77 verses Isaiah 2523 verses Jeremiah 2322 verses Lamentations 88 verses Ezekiel 119 verses Hosea 11 verses Jonah 22 verses Micah 22 verses Habakkuk 22 verses Zechariah 21 verses Matthew 75 verses Mark 55 verses Luke 65 verses John 11 verses Acts 55 verses Romans 22 verses 1 Corinthians 11 verses 2 Corinthians 11 verses 1 Thessalonians 11 verses Hebrews 44 verses James 11 verses 1 Peter 11 verses 2 Peter 11 verses 3 John 11 verses Revelation 22 verses

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH5315

נֶפֶשׁ

nephesh · neh'-fesh

416 times translated as this KJV form738 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

Strong's KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, 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, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.

Other KJV renderings

life 99 souls 58 lives 17 persons 15 person 14 heart 12 mind 11 creature 9

Strong's first: Genesis 2:7Strong's last: Zechariah 11:8

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GreekG5590

ψυχή

psychḗ · psoo-khay'

39 times translated as this KJV form112 total Strong's occurrences

breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew H5315, H7307 and H2416)

Strong's KJV usage: :--heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.

Other KJV renderings

life 32 souls 19 lives 5 for 4 of 2 minds 2 the life 1 the soul 1

Strong's first: Matthew 10:28Strong's last: Revelation 18:14

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HebrewH5082

נְדִיבָה

nᵉdîybâh · ned-ee-baw'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

properly, nobility, i.e. reputation

Strong's KJV usage: soul.

Strong's first: Job 30:15Strong's last: Job 30:15

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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1 Samuel 1:10

H5315

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.

1 Samuel 1:15

H5315

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.

1 Samuel 1:26

H5315

And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:16

H5315

And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.

1 Samuel 17:55

H5315

And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

1 Samuel 18:1

H5315

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:1

H5315

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:1

H5315

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:3

H5315

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 20:3

H5315

And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

1 Samuel 20:4

H5315

Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.

1 Samuel 20:17

H5315

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

1 Samuel 23:20

H5315

Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.

1 Samuel 24:11

H5315

Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

1 Samuel 25:26

H5315

Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:29

H5315

Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

1 Samuel 25:29

H5315

Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

1 Samuel 26:21

H5315

Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

1 Samuel 30:6

H5315

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake 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.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

soul

SOUL, noun

1. The spiritual, rational and immortal substance in man, which distinguishes him from brutes; that part of man which enables him to think and reason, and which renders him a subject of moral government. The immortality of the soul is a fundamental article of the christian system. Such is the nature of the human soul that it must have a God, an object of supreme affection.

2. The understanding; the intellectual principle. The eyes of our soul then only begin to see, when our bodily eye are closing.

3. Vital principle. Thou son, of this great world both eye and soul

4. Spirit; essence; chief part; as charity, the soul of all the virtues. Emotion is the soul of eloquence.

5. Life; animation principle or part; as, an able commander is the soul of an army.

6. Internal power. There is some soul of goodness in things evil.

7. A human being; a person. There was no a soul present. In Paris there are more than seven hundred thousand souls. London, Westminster, Southwark and the suburbs, are said to contain twelve hundred thousand souls.

8. Animal life. To deliver their soil from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Psalms 33:7.

9. Active power. And heaven would fly before the driving soul

10. Spirit; courage; fire; grandeur of mind. That he wants caution he must needs confess, but not a soul to give our arms success.

11. Generosity; nobleness of mind; a colloquial use.

12. An intelligent being. Every soul in heav'n shall bend the knee.

13. Heart; affection. The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David. I Sam. 18.

14. In Scripture, appetite; as the full soul; the hungry soul Proverbs 27:7. Job 33:18.

15. A familiar compellation of a person, but often expressing some qualities of the mind; as alas, poor soul; he was a good soul

SOUL, verb transitive To endure with a soul [Not in use.]

SOUL, SOWL, verb intransitive To afford suitable sustenance. [Not in use.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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