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The Bible Meaning of "Soul"

 Corresponding Words

English: Soul
Hebrew: Nephesh
Greek: Psuche
Latin: Anima


MEANINGS OF NEPHESH

(1) A breathing body
(2) Animal Life
(3) Functions, qualities of human creatures

WORDS USED IN TRANSLATION

(Soul, 472 times -- All others together, 282)

soul
beast
creature
body
dead
fish
thing
man
person
any
one
he, her
himself
herself
me
myself
self
themselves
they
yourselves
own
soul
breath
ghost
life
soul
appetite
mind
heart
will
desire
pleasure
lust
mortality
deadly
refresh
heartily
greedy
contented

USES OF NEPHESH

22 times of animals alone (Gen. 1:21-28)
7 times of men and animals together (Num. 31:28)
53 times of individuals, persons (Gen. 2:7)
96 times of persons doing things (Lev. 5:1,2 and 4)
22 times of man: appetites and animal desires (Prov. 6:30; Gen. 34:3)
231 times of man: mental faculties, emotions (Gen. 34:3; Num. 21:4)
22 times of soul cut off by God (Psa. 78:50)
32 times souls killed by man (Josh. 11:11)
242 times souls subject to DEATH (Eze. 18:4; Psa. 22:29)
13 times souls actually DEAD (Isa.53:12)
13 times souls going to grave (Job. 33:22)

Note: Last 5, over 320 times, souls dead, dying, subject to death

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