ru.ach H7307

רוּחַ (ru.ach) means “spirit” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

רוּחַ Hebrew · H7307 378 tagged occurrences in 348 verses

Pronunciation guide: roo'-akh Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H7307G

רוּחַ · ru.ach · spirit

: spirit 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit 1a) breath 1b) wind 1b1) of heaven 1b2) quarter (of wind), side 1b3) breath of air 1b4) air, gas 1b5) vain, empty thing 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 1c2) courage 1c3) temper, anger 1c4) impatience, patience 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 1c7) prophetic spirit 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1e1) desire 1e2) sorrow, trouble 1f) spirit 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts 1f2) rarely of the will 1f3) as seat especially of moral character 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts 1g5) as energy of life 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

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TBESH · H7307H

רוּחַ · ru.ach · spirit: breath

: breath/wind 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit 1a) breath 1b) wind 1b1) of heaven 1b2) quarter (of wind), side 1b3) breath of air 1b4) air, gas 1b5) vain, empty thing 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 1c2) courage 1c3) temper, anger 1c4) impatience, patience 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 1c7) prophetic spirit 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1e1) desire 1e2) sorrow, trouble 1f) spirit 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts 1f2) rarely of the will 1f3) as seat especially of moral character 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts 1g5) as energy of life 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

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TBESH · H7307I

רוּחַ · ru.ach · spirit: side

: side 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit 1a) breath 1b) wind 1b1) of heaven 1b2) quarter (of wind), side 1b3) breath of air 1b4) air, gas 1b5) vain, empty thing 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 1c2) courage 1c3) temper, anger 1c4) impatience, patience 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 1c7) prophetic spirit 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1e1) desire 1e2) sorrow, trouble 1f) spirit 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts 1f2) rarely of the will 1f3) as seat especially of moral character 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts 1g5) as energy of life 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

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TBESH · H7307J

רוּחַ · ru.ach · spirit: temper

: temper 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit 1a) breath 1b) wind 1b1) of heaven 1b2) quarter (of wind), side 1b3) breath of air 1b4) air, gas 1b5) vain, empty thing 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 1c2) courage 1c3) temper, anger 1c4) impatience, patience 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 1c7) prophetic spirit 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1e1) desire 1e2) sorrow, trouble 1f) spirit 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts 1f2) rarely of the will 1f3) as seat especially of moral character 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts 1g5) as energy of life 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H7306 (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 glosses: air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).

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How translators render H7307

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the spirit	46
spirit	28
wind	26
the wind	22
my spirit	17
a spirit	14
of the wind	14
then the spirit	13
and the spirit	11
breath	7
in spirit	7
the breath	7
winds	6
and my spirit	5
his spirit	5
side	4
and the breath	3
in your spirit	3
then a spirit	3
with the spirit	3
a wind	2
and a spirit	2
and wind	2
by his spirit	2
by the breath	2
by the wind	2
did the spirit	2
like the wind	2
mind	2
my breath	2
now the spirit	2
of my spirit	2
of the breath	2
of the spirits	2
sides	2
so the spirit	2
to the wind	2
whose spirit	2
your spirit	2
a feeling	1
a whirlwind	1
a windstorm	1
accompanied by his spirit	1
after the wind	1
air	1
although my spirit	1
and a wind	1
and a windstorm	1
and by the blast	1
and if a feeling	1
and life	1
and the inspired	1
and their spirits	1
and treat as wind	1
and your spirit	1
are you	1
as by the wind	1
as the spirit	1
as the wind	1
as well as the breath	1
at the blast	1
breeze	1
but his motives	1
but the spirit	1
but wind	1
by a spirit	1
by his breath	1
by my spirit	1
by the spirit	1
courage	1
for air	1
for the wind	1
from the wind	1
had made his spirit	1
his anger	1
his breath	1
his strength	1
his temper	1
his temper is greater	1
his winds	1
if a feeling	1
if the spirit	1
in the breeze	1
in the wind	1
in whose spirit	1
is but a breath	1
is the spirit	1
it	1
it took her breath	1
it took her breath away	1
its	1
my will	1
now a wind	1
o breath	1
of	1
of the spirit	1
of wind	1
of your spirit	1
on the sides	1
one	1
over the wind	1
person	1
sent a wind	1
spirit on you	1
spirits	1
temper	1
that arise in your minds	1
the spirits	1
the whirlwind	1
the winds	1
their anger	1
their breath	1
their own spirit	1
then the spirit of man	1
they brought	1
this raging	1
to escape your spirit	1
to my spirit	1
to your long-winded	1
vvv	1
when his spirit	1
will cause breath	1
with a spirit	1
with a wind	1
with empty	1
with the breath	1
with the wind	1
with your breath	1
your breath	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
spirit	36
the spirit	28
wind	28
and the spirit	24
the wind	22
my spirit	15
of spirit	12
his spirit	6
in spirit	5
of the spirit	5
winds	5
for the spirit	4
no breath	4
side	4
the breath	4
then the spirit	4
a spirit	3
a wind	3
and my spirit	3
breath	3
in the spirit	3
my breath	3
of my spirit	3
of the wind	3
a blast	2
and by the breath	2
and his spirit	2
and the wind	2
and wind	2
but the spirit	2
by the spirit	2
for the wind	2
him and the spirit	2
him with the spirit	2
into all the winds	2
into your mind	2
of the breath	2
of the spirits	2
so the spirit	2
spirits	2
them for the spirit	2
there was no more spirit	2
thy spirit	2
to the wind	2
to your spirit	2
afterwards the spirit	1
against them by thy spirit	1
all his mind	1
and behold a whirlwind	1
and by the spirit	1
and every one whom his spirit	1
and every spirit	1
and for a spirit	1
and his breath	1
and in whose spirit	1
and not spirit	1
and the breath	1
and whose spirit	1
and with the blast	1
and with the breath	1
any more courage	1
as it was and the spirit	1
as the wind	1
as wind	1
because the spirit	1
behold i will cause breath	1
but by my spirit	1
but not of my spirit	1
but the wind	1
by his spirit	1
by the wind	1
came the spirit	1
for the winds	1
forth thy spirit	1
from the wind	1
from the windy	1
from thee that the spirit	1
from thy spirit	1
him the spirit	1
his breath	1
if the spirit	1
in comparison of you then their anger	1
in his spirit	1
in me and the spirit	1
in the cool	1
in the wind	1
in thy spirit	1
into all winds	1
is the spirit	1
lest peradventure the spirit	1
like the wind	1
me and the breath	1
mind	1
moreover the spirit	1
neither was there spirit	1
not in the wind	1
o breath	1
of all that he had by the spirit	1
of mind	1
of them by the breath	1
of thy spirit	1
on a side	1
on wind	1
or if the spirit	1
or when the spirit	1
over his own spirit	1
over the spirit	1
over them the spirit	1
quarters	1
shall become wind	1
shall vain	1
sides	1
so my spirit	1
tempest	1
that his spirit	1
that no air	1
the spirits	1
the spiritual	1
thee but the wind	1
their breath	1
their own spirit	1
them and the wind	1
them he causeth his wind	1
them toward all those winds	1
then a spirit	1
therefore is my spirit	1
thereof by the spirit	1
toward all winds	1
toward every wind	1
until the spirit	1
unto him why is thy spirit	1
unto himself his spirit	1
unto the wind	1
unto them for the spirit	1
upon him the spirit	1
upon it and spirit	1
upon you the spirit	1
vain	1
when my spirit	1
when the blast	1
when the spirit	1
wherewith his spirit	1
which the wind	1
whither the spirit	1
whithersoever the spirit	1
whose spirit	1
why should not my spirit	1
with the spirit	1
with thy wind	1
yea with my spirit	1
your breath	1

Verses containing H7307

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Ecclesiastes 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
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Ecclesiastes 8:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
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Ecclesiastes 10:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.
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Ecclesiastes 11:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
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Ecclesiastes 11:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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Isaiah 4:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
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Isaiah 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
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Isaiah 11:2 · BSB · 4 occurrences
The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.
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Isaiah 11:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
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Isaiah 11:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
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Isaiah 17:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
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Isaiah 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
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Isaiah 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
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Isaiah 25:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
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Isaiah 26:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
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Isaiah 26:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.
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Isaiah 27:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
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Isaiah 28:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.
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Isaiah 29:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
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Isaiah 29:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”
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Isaiah 30:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
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Isaiah 30:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
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Isaiah 31:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
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Isaiah 32:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
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Isaiah 32:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
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Isaiah 33:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
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Isaiah 34:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
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Isaiah 37:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
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Isaiah 38:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
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Isaiah 40:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
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Isaiah 40:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
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Isaiah 41:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
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Isaiah 41:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
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Isaiah 42:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
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Isaiah 42:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
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Isaiah 44:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
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Isaiah 48:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
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Isaiah 54:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
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Isaiah 57:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”
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Isaiah 57:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
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Isaiah 57:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.
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Isaiah 59:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
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Isaiah 59:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
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Isaiah 61:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
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Isaiah 61:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
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Isaiah 63:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
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Isaiah 63:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
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Isaiah 63:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.
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Isaiah 64:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
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Source alternate reference: 64.5

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