The only semantic domain of the Biblical soul in the Old Testament is the Hebrew word nephesh (נֶפֶש), which literally means the "complete life of a being" though it's usually used in the sense of "living being" (breathing creature). Psyche is the equivalent New Testament Greek word from which the English word soul is only translated. In the Greek Septuagint nephesh is mostly translated as psyche . The New Testament follows the terminology of the Septuagint, and thu… (More on Nephesh)