Etymology
The only Hebrew word traditionally translated "soul" (nephesh) in English language Bibles refers to a living, breathing conscious body, rather than to an immortal soul. In the New Testament, the Greek word traditionally translated "soul" (ψυχή) has substantially the same meaning as the Hebrew, without reference to an immortal soul.
| Number of times Nephesh and Psūchê are translated into certain English words. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nephesh | Psūchê | |||
| Translated as: | ||||
| Soul | 110 | 475 | 25 | 58 |
| Life | 165 | 117 | 37 | 40 |
| Person | 25 | 29 | ||
| Spirit | 5 | |||
| Mind | 3 | 15 | 3 | 3 |
| Heart | 21 | 15 | 4 | 1 |
| Yourselves | 19 | 6 | ||
| Himself | 18 | 8 | ||
| Any | 11 | 3 | ||
| Creature | 10 | 9 | ||
| Themselves | 10 | 3 | ||
| Number of miscellaneous words & phrases appearing >10 to 1 times |
301 | 53 | 25 | 1 |
| Not Translated | 47 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| TOTALS | 754 | 753 | 102 | 105 |
| Number of times Hebrew and Greek words are translated into certain English words. | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ruah | neshama | leb | Kilyah | ’ob | elohim | pneuma | autos | sympsych | ||||||||||
| Translated as: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spirit | 182 | 232 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 325 | 317 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Spirits | 4 | 16 | 34 | 42 | ||||||||||||||
| Soul | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Breath | 31 | 27 | 18 | 17 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Wind | 94 | 92 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Mind | 6 | 5 | 28 | 12 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Heart | 4 | 384 | 517 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Number of miscellaneous words & phrases appearing >4 to 1 times |
69 | 22 | 22 | 4 | 187 | 64 | 20 | 31 | 15 | 17 | 2601 |
2606 | 13 | 21 | 5592 |
5785 | ||
Read more about this topic: Soul In The Bible
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