Soul / Nephesh
Nephesh is a broad Hebrew term that can mean: • living being • life • person • self • throat • appetite It should not automatically be defined as an immortal, immaterial entity living inside the body.
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Creature
Denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
- Historical Reference: A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- G2938, H5315, G2937
- Hebrew
- נֶפֶשׁ · nephesh
- Greek
- κτίσμα · ktisma
Grafted biblical context
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Strong’s and original-language information
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κτίσμα
- Transliteration
- ktisma
- Language
- Greek
- Part of speech
- G:N-N
- Indexed occurrences
- 4
Glosses
creature
Lexicon definition
κτίσμα, -τος, τό (κτίζω), [in LXX: Wis.9:2 13:5 14:11, Sir.36:20 (17), Sir.38:34, 3Ma.5:11 * ;] __1. (cl.) a colony. __2. a created thing, creature: 1Ti.4:4, Jas.1:18, Rev.5:13 8:9.† (AS)
A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament
Κτίσμα
- Transliteration
- ktísma
- Language
- Greek
- Indexed occurrences
- 4
Glosses
creature
Lexicon definition
pr. a thing founded; in N.T., a created being, creature, 1 Ti. 4.4. Ja. 1.18, et al. L.G.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
נֶפֶשׁ
- Transliteration
- nephesh
- Pronunciation
- neh'-fesh
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 754
Glosses
any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.
Lexicon definition
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality
used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
κτίσις
- Transliteration
- ktísis
- Language
- Greek
- Indexed occurrences
- 18
Glosses
building, creation, creature, ordinance
Lexicon definition
original formation (properly, the act
by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively)
by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively)
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
κτίσμα
- Transliteration
- ktísma
- Language
- Greek
- Indexed occurrences
- 4
Glosses
creature
Lexicon definition
an original formation (concretely), i.e. product (created thing)
Complete dictionary entries
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Creature
Denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22. The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine attributes and operations.
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Creature
Indexed occurrences: 50
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Strong's Concordance
Creatures
Indexed occurrences: 72
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All Scripture references113 references
Genesis 26
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Leviticus 12
Deuteronomy 2
1 Samuel 1
Job 2
Psalms 10
Proverbs 2
Ecclesiastes 1
Isaiah 3
Jeremiah 2
Ezekiel 20
Daniel 1
Hosea 1
Micah 1
Zephaniah 1
Mark 1
Acts 2
Romans 1
Colossians 1
James 2
2 Peter 1
1 John 1
Revelation 19
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
CREATURE
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for CREATURE.
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Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
- Historical Reference: A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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CREATURE
Nave’s Topical Bible references for CREATURE.
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Animal
An organized living creature endowed with sensation. The Levitical law divided animals into clean and unclean, although the distinction seems to have existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The clean could be offered in sacrifice and eaten. All animals that had not cloven hoofs and did not chew the cud were unclean. The list of clean and unclean quadrupeds is set forth in the Levitical law (Deut. 14:3-20; Lev. 11).
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Asahel
creature of God
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Creature
Denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22. The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine attributes and operations.
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Doleful creatures
(occurring only Isa. 13:21. Heb. ochim, i.e., "shrieks;" hence "howling animals"), a general name for screech owls (howlets), which occupy the desolate palaces of Babylon. Some render the word "hyaenas."
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Dragon
(1.) Heb. tannim, plural of tan. The name of some unknown creature inhabiting desert places and ruins (Job 30:29; Ps. 44:19; Isa. 13:22; 34:13; 43:20; Jer. 10:22; Micah 1:8; Mal. 1:3); probably, as translated in the Revised Version, the jackal (q.v.). (2.) Heb. tannin. Some great sea monster (Jer. 51:34). In Isa. 51:9 it may denote the crocodile. In Gen. 1:21 (Heb. plural tanninim) the Authorized Version renders "whales," and the Revised Version "sea monsters." It is rendered "serpent" in Ex. 7:9. It is used figuratively in Ps. 74:13; Ezek. 29:3. In the New Testament the word "dragon" is found only in Rev. 12:3, 4, 7, 9, 16, 17, etc., and is there used metaphorically of "Satan." (See [162]WHALE.)
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Ferret
Lev. 11:30 (R.V., "gecko"), one of the unclean creeping things. It was perhaps the Lacerta gecko which was intended by the Hebrew word (anakah, a cry, "mourning," the creature which groans) here used, i.e., the "fan-footed" lizard, the gecko which makes a mournful wail. The LXX. translate it by a word meaning "shrew-mouse," of which there are three species in Palestine. The Rabbinical writers regard it as the hedgehog. The translation of the Revised Version is to be preferred.
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Goodness of God
A perfection of his character which he exercises towards his creatures according to their various circumstances and relations (Ps. 145:8, 9; 103:8; 1 John 4:8). Viewed generally, it is benevolence; as exercised with respect to the miseries of his creatures it is mercy, pity, compassion, and in the case of impenitent sinners, long-suffering patience; as exercised in communicating favour on the unworthy it is grace. "Goodness and justice are the several aspects of one unchangeable, infinitely wise, and sovereign moral perfection. God is not sometimes merciful and sometimes just, but he is eternally infinitely just and merciful." God is infinitely and unchangeably good (Zeph. 3:17), and his goodness is incomprehensible by the finite mind (Rom. 11: 35, 36). "God's goodness appears in two things, giving and forgiving."
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Justice of God
That perfection of his nature whereby he is infinitely righteous in himself and in all he does, the righteousness of the divine nature exercised in his moral government. At first God imposes righteous laws on his creatures and executes them righteously. Justice is not an optional product of his will, but an unchangeable principle of his very nature. His legislative justice is his requiring of his rational creatures conformity in all respects to the moral law. His rectoral or distributive justice is his dealing with his accountable creatures according to the requirements of the law in rewarding or punishing them (Ps. 89:14). In remunerative justice he distributes rewards (James 1:12; 2 Tim. 4:8); in vindictive or punitive justice he inflicts punishment on account of transgression (2 Thess. 1:6). He cannot, as being infinitely righteous, do otherwise than regard and hate sin as intrinsically hateful and deserving of punishment. "He cannot deny himself" (2 Tim. 2:13). His essential and eternal righteousness immutably determines him to visit every sin as such with merited punishment.
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Lice
(Heb. kinnim), the creatures employed in the third plague sent upon Egypt (Ex. 8:16-18). They were miraculously produced from the dust of the land. "The entomologists Kirby and Spence place these minute but disgusting insects in the very front rank of those which inflict injury upon man. A terrible list of examples they have collected of the ravages of this and closely allied parasitic pests." The plague of lice is referred to in Ps. 105:31. Some have supposed that the word denotes not lice properly, but gnats. Others, with greater probability, take it to mean the "tick" which is much larger than lice.
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Living creatures
As represented by Ezekiel (1-10) and John (Rev. 4, etc.), are the cherubim. They are distinguished from angels (Rev. 15:7); they join the elders in the "new song" (5:8, 9); they warn of danger from divine justice (Isa. 6:3-5), and deliver the commission to those who execute it (Ezek. 10:2, 7); they associate with the elders in their sympathy with the hundred and forty-four thousand who sing the new song (Rev. 14:3), and with the Church in the overthrow of her enemies (19:4). They are supposed to represent mercy, as distinguished from justice, mercy in its various instrumentalities, and especially as connected with the throne of God, the "throne of grace."
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Satyr
Hairy one. Mentioned in Greek mythology as a creature composed of a man and a goat, supposed to inhabit wild and desolate regions. The Hebrew word is rendered also "goat" (Lev. 4:24) and "devil", i.e., an idol in the form of a goat (17:7; 2 Chr. 11:15). When it is said (Isa. 13:21; comp. 34:14) "the satyrs shall dance there," the meaning is that the place referred to shall become a desolate waste. Some render the Hebrew word "baboon," a species of which is found in Babylonia.
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