רוּחַ
ruach
breath
Strong's H7307NounHebrewTWOT 2131aCreation

רוּחַ (ruach) is a Hebrew noun meaning breath. It appears 378 times in 32 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H7307).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2131a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2131a)breath, wind, spirit; temper, disposition; spirit of God; exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, region of the sky; air, blast, courage, mind, spiritual, tempest, windy
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

רוּחַ noun, feminine: breath, wind, spirit

Strong's H7307 רוּחַ: wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV:air, anger, blast, breath, × cool, courage, mind, × quarter, × side, spirit(-ual), tempest, × vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 2131: רִיחַ rîaḥ — smell, perceive odour; blow, breathe; accept, make of quick understanding

See it in Scripture

Genesis 1:2Exodus 6:9Numbers 5:14

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