Words the Bible translates as person
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- panehפָּנֶהthe face: the front of a person's head, the look it carries, and the presence of the one who turns it toward you
+2 more meanings
- the front or surface of a thing: the outer side it turns toward you
- the position words built on this noun: before, in front of, away from, and so because of
- anthrōposἄνθρωποςa human being; a person of either sex, as distinct from God, angels, or animals.
- prosōponπρόσωπονthe face, and by extension the presence a face conveys, the outward look of a thing, or the person the face stands for
- psuchēψυχήlife: the individual life that animates a creature, the life a person can keep, lose, risk, or give up.
+3 more meanings
- the inner self: the whole person as the seat of feeling, desire, love, and will.
- person: a human being counted as an individual, a living soul, somebody.
- the self that outlasts the body: the life God can keep through death, save, or destroy.
- nepheshנֶפֶשׁthe living self: a person or creature as a breathing, needy, feeling whole, and so by extension their life, their longing, and their very self.
- adamאָדָםhumankind: the human being as a creature of the ground, used both for people as a whole and for any single person
- gulgoletגֻּלְגֹּלֶתthe skull: the bony head, and so a single head as the unit for counting people one by one.
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