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Soul

That immortal, immaterial, active substance or principle in man, whereby he perceives, remembers, reasons, and wills. See MATERIALISM. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Key facts

Subject type: Subject
Strong’s: H5315, G5590
Hebrew: נֶ֫פֶשׁ
Greek: ψυχή · psuchē

Strong’s and original-language information

H5315

נֶ֫פֶשׁ

Glosses: soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, passion

Indexed occurrences: 683

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G5590

ψυχή · psuchē

Glosses: soul

ψυχή, -ῆς, ἡ, [in LXX very frequently for נֶפֶשׁ, sometimes for לֵבַב ,לֵב, etc. ; ] __1.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

H5315

נֶפֶשׁ · nephesh

Glosses: 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)

Indexed occurrences: 0