What is the Strong's number for Ruach?

The Strong's number for Ruach (רוּחַ) is H7307. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Ruach (Strong’s H7307): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Ruach mean?

Ruach (רוּחַ, Strong's H7307) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as 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). The King James Bible translates it as air, anger, blast, breath, × cool, courage, mind, × quarter, × side, spirit(-ual), tempest, × vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).

Ruach (רוּחַ) is the Hebrew word numbered H7307 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated air, anger, blast, breath, courage.

רוּחַ

rûwach · Hebrew

Strong’s H7307 · roo'-akh

Original wordרוּחַ
Transliterationrûwach
Pronunciationroo'-akh
Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
Strong’s numberH7307
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

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)

Derivation. from H7306;

How the King James Bible translates it

air, anger, blast, breath, × cool, courage, mind, × quarter, × side, spirit(-ual), tempest, × vain, (whirl-) wind(-y). (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

And Christ

One word means spirit, breath, and wind. It hovers over creation in Genesis and gives life to every creature; Christians know it as the breath of God, poured out afresh through Christ.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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