h1. H7307
Original: *רוּח*
Transliteration: *rûach*
Phonetic: *roo'-akh*
*BDB Definition*:
# wind, breath, mind, spirit
## breath
## wind
### of heaven
### quarter (of wind), side
### breath of air
### air, gas
### vain, empty thing
## spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
### spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
### courage
### temper, anger
### impatience, patience
### spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
### disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
### prophetic spirit
## spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
### as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
## spirit (as seat of emotion)
### desire
### sorrow, trouble
## spirit
### as seat or organ of mental acts
### rarely of the will
### as seat especially of moral character
## Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
### as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
### as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
### imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
### as endowing men with various gifts
### as energy of life
### as manifest in the Shekinah glory
### never referred to as a depersonalized force
Origin: from [[d 7306]]
TWOT entry: 2131a
Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine
*Strong's Definition*: From [[H7306]]; _wind_ ; by resemblance _breath_, that is, 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): - air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit ([-ual]), tempest, X vain, ([whirl-]) wind (-y).