Limitless Word
ψυχήpsychḗ
GreekG5590104 occurrences (KJV)

breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151 (πνεῦμα), which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222 (ζωή), which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew H05315, H07307 and H02416)

KJV renders it: heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you

Where it appears(showing the first 94 of 104)

  • Matt 2:20“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”
  • Matt 6:25Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
  • Matt 10:28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
  • Matt 10:39He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
  • Matt 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
  • Matt 12:18“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.
  • Matt 16:25For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
  • Matt 16:26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Matt 22:37Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
  • Matt 26:38Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
  • Mark 3:4He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?” But they were silent.
  • Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
  • Mark 8:36For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
  • Mark 8:37For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Mark 10:45For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Mark 12:30you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
  • Mark 12:33and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
  • Mark 14:34He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”
  • Luke 1:46Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.
  • Luke 2:35Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
  • Luke 6:9Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”
  • Luke 9:24For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
  • Luke 9:56For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.
  • Luke 10:27He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Luke 12:19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
  • Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’
  • Luke 12:22He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
  • Luke 12:23Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
  • Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
  • Luke 17:33Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
  • Luke 21:19“By your endurance you will win your lives.
  • John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
  • John 10:15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • John 10:17Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
  • John 10:24The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
  • John 12:25He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
  • John 12:27“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.
  • John 13:37Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
  • John 13:38Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.
  • John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
  • Acts 2:27because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
  • Acts 2:31he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
  • Acts 2:41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
  • Acts 2:43Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
  • Acts 3:23It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
  • Acts 4:32The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
  • Acts 7:14Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
  • Acts 14:2But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
  • Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
  • Acts 15:24Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;
  • Acts 15:26men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 20:10Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”
  • Acts 20:24But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
  • Acts 27:10and said to them, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”
  • Acts 27:22Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
  • Acts 27:37In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.
  • Rom 2:9oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
  • Rom 11:3“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.”
  • Rom 13:1Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
  • Rom 16:4who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
  • 1 Cor 15:45So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
  • 2 Cor 1:23But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.
  • 2 Cor 12:15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
  • Eph 6:6not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
  • Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
  • Phil 2:30because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
  • 1 Th 2:8Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
  • 1 Th 5:23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
  • Heb 6:19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
  • Heb 10:38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
  • Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
  • Heb 12:3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
  • Heb 13:17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
  • Jas 1:21Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
  • Jas 5:20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
  • 1 Pet 1:9receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
  • 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
  • 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1 Pet 2:25For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
  • 1 Pet 3:20who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
  • 1 Pet 4:19Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
  • 2 Pet 2:8(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):
  • 2 Pet 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
  • 1 Jn 3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
  • 3 Jn 1:2Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
  • Rev 6:9When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.
  • Rev 8:9and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.
  • Rev 12:11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
  • Rev 16:3The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.
  • Rev 18:13and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.
  • Rev 18:14The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.
  • Rev 20:4I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.