Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben and Jo Crick)]

On Tue  4 Feb 2003 (16:40:46), biblicalscribe AT hotmail.com 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? Any help would be appreciate. Thanks!

 Dear Matthew

 In Genesis 2:7  WaY:HiY Ha'aDaM L:NeFe$ XaYYaH
 Presumably before that point he was a nefesh mot; and after he died he was
 likewise.

 A human being is body+soul. By Synechdoche, /pars pro toto/, a Soul means
 also the body which it inhabits/inhabited.

 The view from here...
 Ben
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