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Soul in Scripture.

Explore soul in the Bible through the Hebrew 'Nephesh' (Soul, life, self) and Greek 'Psuche' (Soul, life, self). Discover how every original-language word for Soul deepens your understanding of Scripture.

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Strong'sWordLanguageDefinitionOccurrences
H5315נֶפֶשׁnepheshHebrew

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. - properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality - used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) 1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion 1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man 1b) living being 1c) living being (with life in the blood) 1d) the man himself, self, person or individual 1e) seat of the appetites 1f) seat of emotions and passions 1g) activity of mind 1g1) dubious 1h) activity of the will 1h1) dubious 1i) activity of the character 1i1) dubious

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G5590ψυχήpsychḗGreek

heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you. - breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only - thus distinguished on the one hand from πνεῦμα, which is the rational and immortal soul - and on the other from ζωή, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ, רוּחַ and חַי)

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