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Genesis 46:27
Masoretic Text 1524
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
Hebrew-English Dictionary
properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
1. soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
a. that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
b. living being
c. living being (with life in the blood)
d. the man himself, self, person or individual
e. seat of the appetites
f. seat of emotions and passions
g. activity of mind
1. dubious
h. activity of the will
1. dubious
i. activity of the character
1. dubious
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.