Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Sesamo m." <sesamox AT hotmail.com>]

The shift might be the other way.
Gen 2:7 indicates when the Creator gave Adam the breath of life he became a 
nephesh. So, the basic meaning of nephesh would be a living human being. 
That's why you can find quotes in the OT stating that the nephesh can be 
hungry, you can be dirty with the blood of a nephesh, you can kill a 
nephesh, etc. What makes a nephesh being a nephesh is the breath of life, so 
a dead human body could be called a dead nephesh.
The translation of nephesh as psike and the influence of the Greek ideas 
about the inmortality of the psike (on the part of some philosophers; 
others, such as Aristotle taught different ideas) led to the concept of an 
inmortal soul.





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