רוּחַ rûwach

Meaning

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)

In the King James Version: air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).

Derivation: from H7306 (רוּחַ);

Where it is used

• Job 30:22 You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
• Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
• Job 32:18 For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
• Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
• Job 34:14 If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
• Job 37:21 Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
• Job 41:16 One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
• Psalms 1:4 Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
• Psalms 11:6 On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
• Psalms 18:10 He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
• Psalms 18:15 The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
• Psalms 18:42 I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
• Psalms 31:5 Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.
• Psalms 32:2 Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
• Psalms 33:6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
• Psalms 34:18 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
• Psalms 35:5 May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
• Psalms 48:7 With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
• Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Psalms 51:11 Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
• Psalms 51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
• Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
• Psalms 55:8 I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”
• Psalms 76:12 He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.
• Psalms 77:3 I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
• Psalms 77:6 At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
• Psalms 78:8 Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
• Psalms 78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
• Psalms 83:13 Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
• Psalms 103:16 when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
• Psalms 104:3 laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
• Psalms 104:4 He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.
• Psalms 104:29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
• Psalms 104:30 When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.
• Psalms 106:33 For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
• Psalms 107:25 For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
• Psalms 135:7 He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
• Psalms 135:17 they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.
• Psalms 139:7 Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
• Psalms 142:3 Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
• Psalms 143:4 My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
• Psalms 143:7 Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
• Psalms 143:10 Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
• Psalms 146:4 When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
• Psalms 147:18 He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
• Psalms 148:8 lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
• Proverbs 1:23 If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
• Proverbs 11:13 A gossip reveals a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.
• Proverbs 11:29 He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
• Proverbs 14:29 A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
• Proverbs 15:4 A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
• Proverbs 15:13 A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.
• Proverbs 16:2 All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
• Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
• Proverbs 16:19 It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.
• Proverbs 16:32 He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.
• Proverbs 17:22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
• Proverbs 17:27 A man of knowledge restrains his words, and a man of understanding maintains a calm spirit.
• Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
• Proverbs 25:14 Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.