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Soul

Hebrew 5315: nephesh {neh'-fesh}

In this text:

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

The word nephesh appears a number of times in the Bible. It is translated differently in various texts appearing as; soul 475 times, life 117 times, person 29 times, mind 15 times, heart 15 times, creature 9 times, body 8 times, himself 8 times, yourselves 6 times, dead 5 times, will 4 times, desire 4 times, man 3 times, themselves 3 times, any 3 times, appetite 2 times, misc 47 times; for a total of 753 appearances.


REFERENCES

Strong's Numbers from Englishman's Greek and Hebrew Concordances plus Verb Parsings.

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