This is the first podcast episode related to The Bible Project’s word studies video on the Hebrew word “nephesh” which often gets translated as “soul” in most English Bibles.
In Hebrew, the most basic meaning of the word is “throat,” which seems weird to us. Tim Mackie and Jon Collins discuss how we got “soul” from “throat”?
In the first part of the episode (0–12:30), Tim and Jon outline where the word “soul” comes from (Old English), and why most people think that a core teaching of the Bible is people “having souls.” Jon asks how much you can really separate the ideas of a person’s “mind, soul, and body.”
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Keywords: Soul, Psuche, Psyche, nephesh, nefesh, immortal soul, immortal spirit, immortality of the soul, soul's immortality, throat, heart and soul, life, being
Bible reference(s): Deuteronomy 4:29, Deuteronomy 6:5, Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 11:13, Deuteronomy 13:3, Deuteronomy 26:16, Deuteronomy 30:2, Deuteronomy 30:6, Deuteronomy 30:10, Joshua 22:5, Joshua 23:14, Judges 5:21, Job 7:11, Job 10:1, Job 21:25, Job 30:25, Job 33:18, Job 33:20, Job 33:28, Psalms 23:3, Psalms 25:1, Psalms 31:7, Psalm 42:1-2, Psalms 42:5, Psalms 42:11, Psalms 43:5, Psalms 57:8, Psalms 62:5, Psalms 69:1, Psalms 103:1, Psalms 103:2, Psalms 103:22, Psalms 104:1, Psalms 104:35, Psalms 116:7, Psalms 131:2, Psalms 146:1, Ecclesiastes 7:28, Song of Solomon 1:7, Song of Solomon 3:1, Song of Solomon 3:2, Song of Solomon 3:3, Song of Solomon 3:4, Song of Solomon 5:6, Song of Solomon 6:12, Isaiah 38:15, Isaiah 58:11, Jeremiah 4:19, Matthew 10:28, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 1:46, Luke 2:35, Luke 10:27, John 12:27, 1 Corinthians 15:45, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 6:19, James 5:20
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