“13 A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, But by sorrow of the heart the‘spirit’ (ruwach: rationalexpression, breath, etc..)is broken.”
Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon:
Spirit: 7307 ruwachroo’-akh from 7306; 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 ofa 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).