'Soul' in the Bible

and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.”

But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage.

It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

Then they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.”

“Let my soul not enter into their council;Let not my glory be united with their assembly;Because in their anger they slew men,And in their self-will they lamed oxen.

Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.

if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes.

“Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

“Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

“It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,

“You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

“If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

“This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

and you return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons,

“Moreover the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

if you obey the Lord your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

“The torrent of Kishon swept them away,The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.O my soul, march on with strength.

It came about when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was annoyed to death.

But Hannah replied, “No, my lord, I am a woman oppressed in spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord.

She said, “Oh, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the Lord.

Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.

But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed always.

Now it came about when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

Yet David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be grieved.’ But truly as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is hardly a step between me and death.”

Now then, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to do so; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king’s hand.”

“Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, since the Lord has restrained you from shedding blood, and from avenging yourself by your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be as Nabal.

Abner said to David, “Let me arise and go and gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may be king over all that your soul desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

David said on that day, “Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul, through the water tunnel.” Therefore they say, “The blind or the lame shall not come into the house.”

Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing.”

So the king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman replied, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who commanded me, and it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant;

so that the Lord may carry out His promise which He spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons are careful of their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name;

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, “Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.

Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.

Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise, therefore, and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the name of the Lord.”

if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which You have given to their fathers and the city which You have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Your name,

They entered into the covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant written in this book.

“Why is light given to him who suffers,And life to the bitter of soul,

“My soul refuses to touch them;They are like loathsome food to me.

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;I will speak in the anguish of my spirit,I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

So that my soul would choose suffocation,Death rather than my pains.

“I loathe my own life;I will give full vent to my complaint;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

While another dies with a bitter soul,Never even tasting anything good.

“But He is unique and who can turn Him?And what His soul desires, that He does.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right,And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul,

“And now my soul is poured out within me;Days of affliction have seized me.

“Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard?Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

He keeps back his soul from the pit,And his life from passing over into Sheol.

So that his life loathes bread,And his soul favorite food.

“Then his soul draws near to the pit,And his life to those who bring death.

‘He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit,And my life shall see the light.’

To bring back his soul from the pit,That he may be enlightened with the light of life.

Many are saying of my soul,“There is no deliverance for him in God.” Selah.

And my soul is greatly dismayed;But You, O Lord—how long?

Return, O Lord, rescue my soul;Save me because of Your lovingkindness.

Or he will tear my soul like a lion,Dragging me away, while there is none to deliver.

Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it;And let him trample my life down to the groundAnd lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.In the Lord I take refuge;How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain;

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked,And the one who loves violence His soul hates.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul,Having sorrow in my heart all the day?How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol;Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

Arise, O Lord, confront him, bring him low;Deliver my soul from the wicked with Your sword,

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

Deliver my soul from the sword,My only life from the power of the dog.

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him,Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

He restores my soul;He guides me in the paths of righteousnessFor His name’s sake.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehoodAnd has not sworn deceitfully.

A Psalm of David.To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

His soul will abide in prosperity,And his descendants will inherit the land.

Guard my soul and deliver me;Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.

Do not take my soul away along with sinners,Nor my life with men of bloodshed,

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent.O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

I will rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness,Because You have seen my affliction;You have known the troubles of my soul,

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

To deliver their soul from deathAnd to keep them alive in famine.

Our soul waits for the Lord;He is our help and our shield.

My soul will make its boast in the Lord;The humble will hear it and rejoice.

The Lord redeems the soul of His servants,And none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned.

Draw also the spear and the battle-axe to meet those who pursue me;Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

For without cause they hid their net for me;Without cause they dug a pit for my soul.

And my soul shall rejoice in the Lord;It shall exult in His salvation.

They repay me evil for good,To the bereavement of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;I humbled my soul with fasting,And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

Lord, how long will You look on?Rescue my soul from their ravages,My only life from the lions.

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.As the deer pants for the water brooks,So my soul pants for You, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;When shall I come and appear before God?

These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why have you become disturbed within me?Hope in God, for I shall again praise HimFor the help of His presence.