Gematria of Soul
3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “soul” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 779 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 3
- Occurrences
- 779
- Distinct values
- 3
The 3 Hebrew words rendered “soul”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:20בראשית א:כנֶפֶשׁ
a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal
First appearance ·Genesis 2:7בראשית ב:זנִשְׁמַת
properly, nobility, i.e. reputation
First appearance ·Job 30:15איוב ל:טונְדִבָתִי
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of soul?
The Tanakh renders “soul” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: נפש = 430, נשמה = 395 and נדיבה = 71.
How do you say soul in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “soul”; the most frequent are נפש (nephesh), 754 times; נשמה (nᵉshâmâh), 24 times; נדיבה (nᵉdîybâh), 1 time. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.