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Re: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh

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

[b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Matthew Miller, 02/04/2003
- Re: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Shai Heijmans, 02/04/2003
- RE: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Lisbeth S. Fried, 02/04/2003
  - Re: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Jack Kilmon, 02/05/2003
- Re: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, furuli, 02/05/2003
  - RE: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Peter Kirk, 02/05/2003
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Jim West, 02/04/2003
  - RE: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Lisbeth S. Fried, 02/04/2003
    - Re: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Dave Washburn, 02/05/2003
- Re: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Ben and Jo Crick, 02/04/2003
- Re: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Jim West, 02/05/2003
- RE: [b-hebrew] nefarious nefesh, Bill Rea, 02/06/2003