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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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  1. Isaiah 65:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.

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  2. Isaiah 66:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

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  3. Jeremiah 2:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

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  4. Jeremiah 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;

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  5. Jeremiah 4:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”

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  6. Jeremiah 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”

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  7. Jeremiah 10:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; 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.

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  8. Jeremiah 10:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

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  9. Jeremiah 13:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.

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  10. Jeremiah 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

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  11. Jeremiah 18:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

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  12. Jeremiah 22:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.

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  13. Jeremiah 49:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD.

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  14. Jeremiah 49:36 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.

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  15. Jeremiah 51:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer.

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  16. Jeremiah 51:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.

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  17. Jeremiah 51:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; 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.

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  18. Jeremiah 51:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

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  19. Jeremiah 52:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.

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  20. Lamentations 4:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

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  21. Ezekiel 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I looked and saw a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire was a gleam like amber,

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  22. Ezekiel 1:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.

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  23. Ezekiel 1:20 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

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  24. Ezekiel 1:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the creatures moved, the wheels moved; when the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

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  25. Ezekiel 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And as He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and I heard Him speaking to me.

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  26. Ezekiel 3:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!”

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  27. Ezekiel 3:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.

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  28. Ezekiel 3:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

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  29. Ezekiel 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

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  30. Ezekiel 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’

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  31. Ezekiel 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

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  32. Ezekiel 8:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.

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  33. Ezekiel 10:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

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  34. Ezekiel 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.

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  35. Ezekiel 11:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and told me to declare that this is what the LORD says: “That is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your minds.

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  36. Ezekiel 11:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,

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  37. Ezekiel 11:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me,

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  38. Ezekiel 12:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And I will scatter to every wind all the attendants around him and all his troops, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

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  39. Ezekiel 13:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit yet have seen nothing.

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  40. Ezekiel 13:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.

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  41. Ezekiel 13:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.

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  42. Ezekiel 17:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”

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  43. Ezekiel 17:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All his choice troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken.’

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  44. Ezekiel 18:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

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  45. Ezekiel 19:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

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  46. Ezekiel 20:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.

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  47. Ezekiel 21:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when they ask, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you are to say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water.’ Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.”

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    Source alternate reference: 21.12

  48. Ezekiel 27:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.

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  49. Ezekiel 36:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

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  50. Ezekiel 36:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

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