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...', Latin ''anima'' vs. ''spiritus'', Hebrew ''ruach'' vs. ''neshama'' or [[nephesh]]; in Hebrew ''neshama'' from the root ''NSHM'' or breath.) ...alah|Kabbalists]], is one of the five parts of the Jewish [[soul]], where "nephesh" (''animal'') refers to the physical being and its animal instincts. Simila

...edia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint] (LXX), ψυχή translates [[Hebrew]] נפש nephesh, meaning "life, vital breath" and specifically refers to a mortal, [[physic

...o God breathing the breath of life into clay to make Adam a living soul ([[nephesh]], roughly "breather"). It also refers to the breath as returning to God wh