Nephesh

The word nephesh occurs 754 times in the Hebrew Old Testament.

In the A.V. and R.V. it is translated “soul” 472 times, while in the other 282 places it is represented by forty-four different words or phrases. In fifty-three of these places there is a marginal rendering which calls attention to the fact that the word is “nephesh,” while in 229 passages the English reader has hitherto been left in ignorance of the fact.  The English word “soul” is in every occurrence the rendering of the Hebrew nephesh, except in Job 30:15 and Isaiah 57:16.

Though, with these two exceptions, the English word “soul” always represents the Hebrew nephesh, [however] nephesh is not always translated “soul”.

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Author: E. W. Bullinger

Keywords: Soul, Nephesh, Nefesh, Soul leaves the body, Soul goes to heaven, Soul goes to hell, Souls under the altar, Souls under the alter, Immortal soul, Is the soul immortal, Immortal spirit, Soul and spirit, Body and soul, Body soul and spirit, Immortality of the soul, Soul can die, Death of the soul, Afterlife, After life, Cannot kill the soul, Undying soul, Undieing soul, Psuche, Psyche, Metaphysical soul, Animal life, Breath of life, creature, sole, oneself, one's self, life after death, pneuma

Bible reference(s): Gen. 1:20, Gen. 1:21, Gen. 1:24, Gen. 1:30, Gen. 2:7, Gen. 2:19, Gen 3:19, Gen. 9:4, Gen. 9:5, Gen. 9:10, Gen. 9:12, Gen. 9:15, Gen. 9:16, Gen. 12:5, Gen. 12:13, Gen. 14:21, Gen. 17:14, Gen. 19:17, Gen. 19:19, Gen. 19:20, Gen. 23:8, Gen. 27:4, Gen. 27:19, Gen. 27:25, Gen. 27:31, Gen. 32:30, Gen. 34:3, Gen. 34:8, Gen. 35:18, Gen. 36:6, Gen. 37:21, Gen. 42:21, Gen. 44:30, Gen. 46:15, Gen. 46:18, Gen. 46:22, Gen. 46:25, Gen. 46:26, Gen. 46:27, Gen. 49:6, Exod. 1:5, Exod. 4:19, Exod. 12:4, Exod. 12:15, Exod. 12:16, Exod. 12:19, Exod. 15:9, Exod. 16:16, Exod. 21:23, Exod. 21:30, Exod. 23:9, Exod. 30:12, Exod. 30:15, Exod. 30:16, Exod. 31:14, Lev. 2:1, Lev. 4:2, Lev. 4:27, Lev. 5:1, Lev. 5:2, Lev. 5:4, Lev. 5:15, Lev. 5:17, Lev. 6:2, Lev. 7:18, Lev. 7:20, Lev. 7:21, Lev. 7:25, Lev. 7:27, Lev. 11:10, Lev. 11:43, Lev. 11:44, Lev. 11:46, Lev. 16:29, Lev. 16:31, Lev. 17:10, Lev. 17:11, Lev. 17:12, Lev. 17:14, Lev. 17:15, Lev. 18:29, Lev. 19:8, Lev. 19:28, Lev. 20:6, Lev. 20:25, Lev. 21:1, Lev. 21:11, Lev. 22:3, Lev. 22:4, Lev. 22:6, Lev. 22:11, Lev. 23:27, Lev. 23:29, Lev. 23:30, Lev. 23:32, Lev. 24:17, Lev. 24:18, Lev. 26:11, Lev. 26:15, Lev. 26:16, Lev. 26:30, Lev. 26:43, Lev. 27:2, Num. 5:2, Num. 5:6, Num. 6:6, Num. 6:11, Num. 9:6, Num. 9:7, Num. 9:10, Num. 9:13, Num. 11:6, Num. 15:27, Num. 15:28, Num. 15:30, Num. 15:31, Num. 16:38, Num. 19:11, Num. 19:13, Num. 19:18, Num. 19:20, Num. 19:22, Num. 21:4, Num. 21:5, Num. 23:10, Num. 29:7, Num. 30:2, Num. 30:4, Num. 30:5, Num. 30:6, Num. 30:7, Num. 30:8, Num. 30:9, Num. 30:10, Num. 30:11, Num. 30:12, Num. 30:13, Num. 31:19, Num. 31:28, Num. 31:35, Num. 31:40, Num. 31:46, Num. 31:50, Num. 35:11, Num. 35:15, Num. 35:30, Num. 35:31, Deut. 4:9, Deut. 4:15, Deut. 4:29, Deut. 6:5, Deut. 10:12, Deut. 10:22, Deut. 11:13, Deut. 11:18, Deut. 12:15, Deut. 12:20, Deut. 12:21, Deut. 12:23, Deut. 13:3, Deut. 13:6, Deut. 14:26, Deut. 18:6, Deut. 19:6, Deut. 19:11, Deut. 19:21, Deut. 21:14, Deut. 22:26, Deut. 23:24, Deut. 24:6, Deut. 24:7, Deut. 24:15, Deut. 26:16, Deut. 27:25, Deut. 28:65, Deut. 30:2, Deut. 30:6, Deut. 30:10, Jos. 2:13, Jos. 2:14, Jos. 9:24, Jos. 10:28, Jos. 10:30, Jos. 10:32, Jos. 10:35, Jos. 10:37, Jos. 10:39, Jos. 11:11, Jos. 20:3, Jos. 20:9, Jos. 22:5, Jos. 23:11, Jos. 23:14, Jdg. 5:18, Jdg. 5:21, Jdg. 9:17, Jdg. 10:16, Jdg. 12:3, Jdg. 16:16, Jdg. 16:30, Jdg. 18:25, Ruth 4:15, 1 Sam. 1:10, 1 Sam. 1:15, 1 Sam. 1:26, 1 Sam. 2:16, 1 Sam. 2:33, 1 Sam. 2:35, 1 Sam. 17:55, 1 Sam. 18:1, 1 Sam. 18:3, 1 Sam. 19:5, 1 Sam. 19:11, 1 Sam. 20:1, 1 Sam. 20:3, 1 Sam. 20:4, 1 Sam. 20:17, 1 Sam. 22:2, 1 Sam. 22:22, 1 Sam. 22:23, 1 Sam. 23:15, 1 Sam. 23:20, 1 Sam. 24:11, 1 Sam. 25:26, 1 Sam. 25:29, 1 Sam. 26:21, 1 Sam. 26:24, 1 Sam. 28:9, 1 Sam. 28:21, 1 Sam. 30:6, 2 Sam. 1:9, 2 Sam. 3:21, 2 Sam. 4:8, 2 Sam. 4:9, 2 Sam. 5:8, 2 Sam. 11:11, 2 Sam. 14:7, 2 Sam. 14:14, 2 Sam. 14:19, 2 Sam. 16:11, 2 Sam. 17:8, 2 Sam. 18:13, 2 Sam. 19:5, 2 Sam. 23:17, 1 Ki. 1:12, 1 Ki. 1:29, 1 Ki. 2:4, 1 Ki. 2:23, 1 Ki. 3:11, 1 Ki. 8:48, 1 Ki. 11:37, 1 Ki. 17:21, 1 Ki. 17:22, 1 Ki. 19:2, 1 Ki. 19:3, 1 Ki. 19:4, 1 Ki. 19:10, 1 Ki. 19:14, 1 Ki. 20:31, 1 Ki. 20:32, 1 Ki. 20:39, 1 Ki. 20:42, 2 Ki. 1:13, 2 Ki. 1:14, 2 Ki. 2:2, 2 Ki. 2:4, 2 Ki. 2:6, 2 Ki. 4:27, 2 Ki. 4:30, 2 Ki. 7:7, 2 Ki. 9:15, 2 Ki. 10:24, 2 Ki. 12:4, 2 Ki. 23:3, 2 Ki. 23:25, 1 Chr. 5:21, 1 Chr. 11:19, 1 Chr. 22:19, 1 Chr. 28:9, 2 Chr. 1:11, 2 Chr. 6:38, 2 Chr. 15:12, 2 Chr. 34:31, Est. 4:13, Est. 7:3, Est. 7:7, Est. 8:11, Est. 9:16, Est. 9:31, Job 2:4, Job 2:6, Job 3:20, Job 6:7, Job 6:11, Job 7:11, Job 7:15, Job 9:21, Job 10:1, Job 11:20, Job 12:10, Job 13:14, Job 14:22, Job 16:4, Job 18:4, Job 19:2, Job 21:25, Job 23:13, Job 24:12, Job 27:2, Job 27:8, Job 30:16, Job 30:25, Job 31:30, Job 31:39, Job 32:2, Job 33:18, Job 33:20, Job 33:22, Job 33:28, Job 33:30, Job 36:14, Job 41:21Ps. 3:2, Ps. 6:3, Ps. 6:4, Ps. 7:2, Ps. 7:5, Ps. 10:3, Ps. 11:1, Ps. 11:5, Ps. 13:2, Ps. 16:10, Ps. 17:9, Ps. 17:13, Ps. 19:7, Ps. 22:20, Ps. 22:29, Ps. 23:3, Ps. 24:4, Ps. 25:1, Ps. 25:13, Ps. 25:20, Ps. 26:9, Ps. 27:12, Ps. 30:3, Ps. 31:7, Ps. 31:9, Ps. 31:13, Ps. 33:19, Ps. 33:20, Ps. 34:2, Ps. 34:22, Ps. 35:3, Ps. 35:4, Ps. 35:7, Ps. 35:9, Ps. 35:12, Ps. 35:13, Ps. 35:17, Ps. 35:25, Ps. 38:12, Ps. 40:14, Ps. 41:2, Ps. 41:4, Ps. 42:1, Ps. 42:2, Ps. 42:4, Ps. 42:5, Ps. 42:6, Ps. 42:11, Ps. 43:5, Ps. 44:25, Ps. 49:8, Ps. 49:15, Ps. 49:18, Ps. 54:3, Ps. 54:4, Ps. 55:18, Ps. 56:6, Ps. 56:13, Ps. 57:1, Ps. 57:4, Ps. 57:6, Ps. 59:3, Ps. 62:1, Ps. 62:5, Ps. 63:1, Ps. 63:5, Ps. 63:8, Ps. 63:9, Ps. 66:9, Ps. 66:16, Ps. 69:1, Ps. 69:10, Ps. 69:18, Ps. 70:2, Ps. 71:10, Ps. 71:13, Ps. 71:23, Ps. 72:13, Ps. 72:14, Ps. 74:19, Ps. 77:2, Ps. 78:18, Ps. 78:50, Ps. 84:2, Ps. 86:2, Ps. 86:4, Ps. 86:13, Ps. 86:14, Ps. 88:3, Ps. 88:14, Ps. 89:48, Ps. 94:17, Ps. 94:19, Ps. 94:21, Ps. 97:10, Ps. 103:1, Ps. 103:2, Ps. 103:22, Ps. 104:1, Ps. 104:35, Ps. 105:18, Ps. 105:22, Ps. 106:15, Ps. 107:5, Ps. 107:9, Ps. 107:18, Ps. 107:26, Ps. 109:20, Ps. 109:31, Ps. 116:4, Ps. 116:7, Ps. 116:8, Ps. 119:20, Ps. 119:25, Ps. 119:28, Ps. 119:81, Ps. 119:109, Ps. 119:129, Ps. 119:167, Ps. 119:175, Ps. 120:2, Ps. 120:6, Ps. 121:7, Ps. 123:4, Ps. 124:4, Ps. 124:5, Ps. 124:7, Ps. 130:5, Ps. 130:6, Ps. 131:2, Ps. 138:3, Ps. 139:14, Ps. 141:8, Ps. 142:4, Ps. 142:7, Ps. 143:3, Ps. 143:6, Ps. 143:8, Ps. 143:11, Ps. 143:12, Ps. 146:1, Prov. 1:18, Prov. 1:19, Prov. 2:10, Prov. 3:22, Prov. 6:16, Prov. 6:26, Prov. 6:30, Prov. 6:32, Prov. 7:23, Prov. 8:36, Prov. 10:3, Prov. 11:17, Prov. 11:25, Prov. 11:30, Prov. 12:10, Prov. 13:2, Prov. 13:3, Prov. 13:4, Prov. 13:8, Prov. 13:19, Prov. 13:25, Prov. 14:10, Prov. 14:25, Prov. 15:32, Prov. 16:17, Prov. 16:24, Prov. 16:26, Prov. 18:7, Prov. 19:2, Prov. 19:8, Prov. 19:15, Prov. 19:16, Prov. 19:18, Prov. 20:2, Prov. 21:10, Prov. 21:23, Prov. 22:5, Prov. 22:23, Prov. 22:25, Prov. 23:2, Prov. 23:7, Prov. 23:14, Prov. 24:12, Prov. 24:14, Prov. 25:13, Prov. 25:25, Prov. 27:7, Prov. 27:9, Prov. 28:17, Prov. 28:25, Prov. 29:10, Prov. 29:17, Prov. 29:24, Prov. 31:6, Eccl. 2:24, Eccl. 4:8, Eccl. 6:2, Eccl. 6:3, Eccl. 6:7, Eccl. 6:9, Eccl. 7:28, Cant. 1:7, Cant. 3:1, Cant. 3:2, Cant. 3:3, Cant. 3:4, Cant. 5:6, Cant. 6:12, Isa. 1:14, Isa. 3:9, Isa. 3:20, Isa. 5:14, Isa. 10:18, Isa. 15:4, Isa. 19:10, Isa. 26:8, Isa. 26:9, Isa. 29:8, Isa. 32:6, Isa. 38:15, Isa. 38:17, Isa. 42:1, Isa. 43:4, Isa. 44:20, Isa. 46:2, Isa. 47:14, Isa. 49:7, Isa. 51:23, Isa. 53:10, Isa. 53:11, Isa. 53:12, Isa. 55:2, Isa. 55:3, Isa. 56:11, Isa. 58:3, Isa. 58:5, Isa. 58:10, Isa. 58:11, Isa. 61:10, Isa. 66:3, Jer. 2:24, Jer. 2:34, Jer. 3:11, Jer. 4:10, Jer. 4:19, Jer. 4:30, Jer. 4:31, Jer. 5:9, Jer. 5:29, Jer. 6:8, Jer. 6:16, Jer. 9:9, Jer. 11:21, Jer. 12:7, Jer. 13:17, Jer. 14:19, Jer. 15:1, Jer. 15:9, Jer. 17:21, Jer. 18:20, Jer. 19:7, Jer. 19:9, Jer. 20:13, Jer. 21:7, Jer. 21:9, Jer. 22:25, Jer. 22:27, Jer. 26:19, Jer. 31:12, Jer. 31:14, Jer. 31:25, Jer. 32:41, Jer. 34:16, Jer. 34:20, Jer. 34:21, Jer. 37:9, Jer. 38:2, Jer. 38:16, Jer. 38:17, Jer. 38:20, Jer. 39:18, Jer. 40:14, Jer. 40:15, Jer. 42:20, Jer. 43:6, Jer. 44:7, Jer. 44:14, Jer. 44:30, Jer. 45:5, Jer. 46:26, Jer. 48:6, Jer. 49:37, Jer. 50:19, Jer. 51:6, Jer. 51:14, Jer. 51:45, Jer. 52:29, Jer. 52:30, Lam. 1:11, Lam. 1:16, Lam. 1:19, Lam. 2:12, Lam. 2:19, Lam. 3:17, Lam. 3:20, Lam. 3:24, Lam. 3:25, Lam. 3:51, Lam. 3:58, Lam. 5:9, Ezek. 3:19, Ezek. 3:21, Ezek. 4:14, Ezek. 7:19, Ezek. 13:18, Ezek. 13:19, Ezek. 13:20, Ezek. 14:14, Ezek. 14:20, Ezek. 16:5, Ezek. 16:27, Ezek. 17:17, Ezek. 18:4, Ezek. 18:20, Ezek. 18:27, Ezek. 22:25, Ezek. 22:27, Ezek. 23:17, Ezek. 23:18, Ezek. 23:22, Ezek. 23:28, Ezek. 24:21, Ezek. 24:25, Ezek. 25:6, Ezek. 25:15, Ezek. 27:13, Ezek. 27:31, Ezek. 32:10, Ezek. 33:5, Ezek. 33:6, Ezek. 33:9, Ezek. 36:5, Ezek. 47:9, Hos. 4:8, Hos. 9:4, Amos 2:14, Amos 2:15, Amos 6:8, Jon. 1:14, Jon. 2:5, Jon. 2:7, Jon. 4:3, Jon. 4:8, Mic. 6:7, Mic. 7:1, Mic. 7:3, Hab. 2:4, Hab. 2:5, Hab. 2:10, Hag. 2:13, Zech. 11:8

Source: Appendix 13, The Companion Bible (1922).

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