# רוּחַ (rucha)

Israeli respelling: ru-cha. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7308. 11 Old Testament occurrences.

{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)}

King James renderings: mind, spirit, wind.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/rucha-h7308

## Occurrences

- [Daniel 2:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/2/35) — Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer thresh…
- [Daniel 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/4/8) — But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom is the spirit of the ho…
- [Daniel 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/4/9) — O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me…
- [Daniel 4:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/4/18) — This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of…
- [Daniel 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/5/11) — There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, li…
- [Daniel 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/5/12) — Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving o…
- [Daniel 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/5/14) — I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.
- [Daniel 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/5/20) — But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
- [Daniel 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/6/3) — Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him ov…
- [Daniel 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/7/2) — Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
- [Daniel 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/7/15) — I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.