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  • From: Irene Riegner <iriegner AT concentric.net>
  • To: Andrew C Smith <a.c.smith AT juno.com>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: words for "soul" ---- nefesh, etc.
  • Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 23:13:45 -0500

A. C. Smith asked
 
I found the following on a web site. I have not heard of "neshama"
before. Does this word occur in the Tanakh? If so, where?
See BDB, pg 675---defined as "breath."   Even-Shoshan:  Occurs 24 times.
Appears in Dt 20.16;  Gen 2.7;  Is 30.33;  1 kings 17.7, etc.

irene

 



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