נָפַשׁ nâphash

Meaning

to breathe; passively, to be breathed upon , i.e. (figuratively) refreshed (as if by a current of air)

In the King James Version: (be) refresh selves (-ed).

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Exodus 23:12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
• Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
• 2 Samuel 16:14 Finally, the king and all the people with him arrived, exhausted. And there he refreshed himself.