נָפַשׁ
nafash · be refreshed
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5314 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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nafash (נָפַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be refreshed”.
Catch one's breath, be refreshed.
How to say it
na·fash
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To recover strength after exhaustion.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- caught his breath ×2
- may be refreshed ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 23:12
Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.
- Exodus 31:17
Between me and the sons of Israel it is a sign forever; for in six days YHWH made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he ceased and caught his breath.’”
- 2 Samuel 16:14
The king and all the people who were with him arrived exhausted, and he caught his breath there.