Words the Bible translates as soul
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- psuchēψυχήperson: a human being counted as an individual, a living soul, somebody.
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- life: the individual life that animates a creature, the life a person can keep, lose, risk, or give up.
- the inner self: the whole person as the seat of feeling, desire, love, and will.
- 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.
- neshamahנְשָׁמָהbreath: the air a living body draws in and out, understood as God's own breath given on loan, whose presence is life and whose departure is death
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