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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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Numbers 9:13

H5315

But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth 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.

Numbers 11:6

H5315

But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

Numbers 15:27

H5315

And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.

Numbers 15:28

H5315

And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.

Numbers 15:30

H5315

But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 15:30

H5315

But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 15:31

H5315

Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

Numbers 19:13

H5315

Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth 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.

Numbers 19:20

H5315

But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

Numbers 19:22

H5315

And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

Numbers 21:4

H5315

And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

Numbers 21:5

H5315

And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

Numbers 30:2

H5315

If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

Numbers 30:4

H5315

And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30:4

H5315

And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30:5

H5315

But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

Numbers 30:6

H5315

And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

Numbers 30:7

H5315

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 wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30:8

H5315

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, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.

Numbers 30:10

H5315

And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

Numbers 30:11

H5315

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30:12

H5315

But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.

Numbers 30:13

H5315

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

Numbers 31:28

H5315

And levy a tribute unto 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:

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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