ψυχή

The 12 distinct written forms G5590 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5590, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• ψυχω psýchō G5594 to blow

Shares the same root

• ψυχος psýchos G5592 cold

Derived from this word

• ψυχικος psychikós G5591 soulish

Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

The same Greek word ψυχη appears 740 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 675 verses in 32 books.

740

LXX occurrences

Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.

675

verses

Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.

32 / 39

OT books

The word appears in 32 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

• Genesis 1:20 ψυχή
• Exodus 1:5 ψυχή
• Leviticus 2:1 ψυχή
• Numbers 5:2 ψυχή
• Deuteronomy 4:9 ψυχή
• Joshua 2:13 ψυχή
• Judges 5:18 ψυχή
• Ruth 4:15 ψυχή
• 1 Samuel 1:10 ψυχή
• 2 Samuel 1:9 ψυχή
• 1 Kings 1:12 ψυχή
• 2 Kings 1:13 ψυχή

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5590) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 675. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Genesis 1:20 ψυχή God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
• Genesis 1:21 ψυχή God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
• Genesis 1:24 ψυχή God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
• Genesis 1:30 ψυχή To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
• Genesis 2:7 ψυχή Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Genesis 2:19 ψυχή Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
• Genesis 9:4 ψυχή But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat.
• Genesis 9:5 ψυχή I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
• Genesis 9:10 ψυχή and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth.
• Genesis 9:12 ψυχή God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
• Genesis 9:15 ψυχή and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
• Genesis 9:16 ψυχή The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
• Genesis 12:5 ψυχή Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
• Genesis 12:13 ψυχή Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
• Genesis 17:14 ψυχή The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."
• Genesis 19:17 ψυχή It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"
• Genesis 19:19 ψυχή See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
• Genesis 19:20 ψυχή See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
• Genesis 23:8 ψυχή He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
• Genesis 27:4 ψυχή Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."
• Genesis 27:19 ψυχή Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
• Genesis 27:25 ψυχή He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
• Genesis 27:31 ψυχή He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."
• Genesis 32:31 ψυχή The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
• Genesis 34:3 ψυχή His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
• Genesis 34:8 ψυχή Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
• Genesis 35:18 ψυχή It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni, but his father named him Benjamin.
• Genesis 37:21 ψυχή Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."
• Genesis 41:8 ψυχή It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men of it. Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
• Genesis 42:21 ψυχή They said one to another, "We are most assuredly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come on us."
• Genesis 44:30 ψυχή Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;
• Genesis 46:15 ψυχή These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
• Genesis 46:18 ψυχή These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
• Genesis 46:22 ψυχή These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
• Genesis 46:25 ψυχή These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
• Genesis 46:26 ψυχή All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
• Genesis 46:27 ψυχή The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
• Genesis 49:6 ψυχή My soul, don't come into their council; My glory, don't be united to their assembly; For in their anger they killed a man, In their self-will they hamstrung an ox.
• Exodus 1:5 ψυχή All the souls who came out of the Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
• Exodus 4:19 ψυχή Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."
• Exodus 12:4 ψυχή and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
• Exodus 12:15 ψυχή Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
• Exodus 12:16 ψυχή In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
• Exodus 12:19 ψυχή Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
• Exodus 15:9 ψυχή The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
• Exodus 16:16 ψυχή This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent."
• Exodus 21:23 ψυχή But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
• Exodus 21:30 ψυχή If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.
• Exodus 23:9 ψυχή "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
• Exodus 30:12 ψυχή "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5590) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.