Nephesh (נפש)'s the Hebrew word commonly translated as soul in English. It literally means the "complete life of a being" though it's usually used in the sense of "living being" (breathing creature). The Hebrew word nephesh applies to humans, lower animals, corpses and to God Almighty (Leviticus 26:11; 26:30; Psalm 24:4; Isaiah 42:1). In some Jewish traditions, such as Chabad-Lubavitch, plants also have souls . The concept of an immaterial soul separate from and surviving the b… (More on Nephesh)