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  • From: "Shai Heijmans" <shaih AT post.tau.ac.il>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh
  • Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:56:07 +0200

Hi Matthew,

You wrote:

> But one particular
> usage still baffles me: nefesh mot is used to describe a dead corpse! Can
> anyone explain how nefesh, which seems to have the base meaning of breath
> or life or soul, had come to be used to describe a corpse?


soul > tombstone > tomb > corpse.

Shai Heijmans





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