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THE USE OF PSUCHE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
psuche is the only word translated "soul" in the N.T. It occurs 105 times, and is rendered "soul" 58 times, "life" 40 times, "mind" 3 times, and "heart", "heartily", "us", and "you" once each.
Psuche exactly corresponds to the Hebrew Nepesh, as will be seen from the following passages : Mark 12:29, 30, compared with Deut. 6:4, 5; Acts 2:27 with Ps. 16:10; Rom. 11:3 with 1Kings 19:10; 1Cor. 15:45 with Gen. 2:7. In all these places, psuche in the New Testament represents nepesh in the Old.
The following are the occurrences of the word :--
I. psuche, used of the lower animals twice, is rendered
1. "life" : Rev. 8:9
2. "soul" : Rev. 16:3
II. psuche, used of man as an individual (just as we speak of a ship going down with every soul on board, or of so many lives being lost in a railway accident), occurs 14 times, and is rendered
"soul" : Acts 2:41, 43; 3:23; 7:14; 27:37. Rom. 2:9; 13:1. 1Cor. 15:45. James 5:20. 1Pet. 3:20. 2Pet. 2:14. Rev. 6:9; 18:13; 20:4.
III. psuche, used of the life of man, which can be lost, destroyed, saved, laid down, &c., occurs 58 times, and is rendered
1. "life" : Matt. 2:20; 6:25; 10:39; 16:25; 20:28. Mark 3:4; 8:35; 10:45. Luke 6:9; 9:24, 56; 12:23; 14:26; 17:33 (*1). John 10:11, 15, 17; 12:25; 13:37, 38; 15:13. Acts 15:26; 20:10, 24; 27:10, 22. Rom. 11:3; 16:4. Phil. 2:30. 1John 3:16. Rev. 12:11.
2. "soul" : Matt. 10:28; 16:26. Mark 8:36, 37. Luke 12:20; 21:10. 1Thess. 2:8; 5:23. Heb. 4:12; 6:19; 10:39; 13:17. James 1:21. 1Pet. 1:9; 2:11, 25; 4:19.
IV. psuche, used to emphasize the pronoun, as we use "self" (e.g. "my soul" = "myself"), occurs 21 times and is rendered
1. "soul" : Matt. 11:29; 12:18; 26:38. Mark 14:34. Luke 1:46; 12:19. John 12:27. Acts 2:27, 31; 14:22; 15:24. 2Cor. 1:23. Heb. 10:38. 1Pet. 1:22. 2Pet. 2:8. Rev. 18:14.
2. "mind" : Acts 14:2. Heb. 12:3.
3. "us" : John 10:24.
4. "you" : 2Cor. 12:15.
V. psuche, used with intensive force, to express all the powers of one's being, occurs 10 times, and is rendered
1. "soul" : Matt. 22:37. Mark 12:30, 33. Luke 2:35; 10:27. Acts 4:32. 3John 2.
2. "heart" : Eph. 6:6
3. "mind" : Phil. 1:27
4. "heartily" : Col. 3:23
(*1) In this verse "life" occurs twice in the English, but psuche only once in the Greek.
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you mean your physical body?
Adam was not given a 'living soul', he 'became a living soul'.
Whether in this mortal, or in the immortal body, the spirit must reside in a body. The physical one is called the soul in Scripture.
The word nephesh occurs 754 times in the Hebrew Old Testament. Each occurrence is noted in the margin of the Companion Bible, but it will be useful for the Bible student to have a complete list.
In the A.V. and R.V. it is translated "soul" 472 times, while in the other 282 places it is represented by forty-four different words or phrases. In fifty-three of these places there is a marginal rendering which calls attention to the fact that the word is "nephesh", while in 229 passages the English reader has hitherto been left in ignorance of the fact. The English word "soul" is in every occurrence the rendering of the Hebrew nephesh, except in Job 30:15 and Isa. 57:16. The time has come to "open the book".
This will help:
The first occurrence of nephesh is in Gen. 1:20, "the moving creature that hath life (nephesh)"
Nephesh is used of the lower animals only, in twenty-two passages, and is rendered in nine different ways
Nephesh is used of the Lower Animals and Man in seven passages, and rendered in three different ways
Nephesh is used of Man, as an individual person, in 53 passages, and is rendered in six different ways
Nephesh is used of Man, as exercising certain powers, or performing certain acts (may be often well rendered by emphatic pronouns), in ninety-six passages, and with eleven different renderings
Nephesh is used of Man, as possessing animal appetites and desires, in twenty-two passages, rendered in five different ways
Nephesh is used of Man, as exercising mental faculties, and manifesting certain feelings and affections and passions, in 231 passages, and rendered in twenty different ways
Nephesh is used of Man, (a) as being "cut off" by God; (b) and as being slain of killed by man, in fifty-four passages : and is rendered in eight different ways
Nephesh is used of Man as being mortal, subject to death of various kinds, from which it can be saved and delivered and life prolonged, in 243 passages, rendered in eleven different ways
Nephesh is used of man, as actually dead, in thirteen passages, and is rendered in three different ways
Nephesh, in thirteen passages (all rendered "soul"), is spoken of as going to a place described by four different words, rendered as shown below :--
i. "sheol" = THE grave (as distinct from keber, A grave), gravedom (or the dominion of death), in five passages, rendered in this connection in two different ways :--
1. "grave". Ps. 30:3 (R.V. "Sheol"); 89:48 (R.V. "Sheol", marg. grave). (Cp. Ps. 49:15).
2. "hell". Ps. 16:10 (R.V. "Sheol"); 86:13 (marg. grave. R.V. "pit", marg. lowest Sheol). Prov. 23:14 (R.V. "Sheol", marg. the grave).
ii. "shachath" = a pit (for taking wild beasts); hence, a grave. The Septuagint and New Testament take it in the sense of corruption; but, if so, not implying putridity, but destruction. Occurs in six passages, and is rendered in two different ways :--
1. "pit". Job 33:18, 28, 30. Ps. 35:7. Isa. 38:17.
2. "grave". Job 33:22 (R.V. "pit").
iii. "shuchah" = a deep pit (cp. all the occurrences, Prov. 22:14; 23:27. Jer. 2:6; 18:20, 22). In one passage only :--
1. Pit. Jer. 18:20.
iv. "dumah" = silence. Ps. 94:17.
Total = 754
It is used of the lower animals four times before it is used of man; and out of the first thirteen times in Genesis, it is used ten times of the lower animals.
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what about our soul?
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Yours in Christ
Timothy Michael Spong
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the angels sinned.
angels are called men.
God made his angels spirits.
Adam and eve were given skin for a covering.
the wages of sin is death.
it is given for all men to die once.
one must be born from above.
born of water and blood.
born of spiritual water.
the dust returns to the ground from whence it came.
the spirit returns to God who gave it.
our bodies are called vessels of mercy.
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