In the Bible the soul is the living person, often the whole self, and the spirit is the life God gives. Genesis 2:7 says the man “became a living being”, Zechariah 12:1 says God “forms the human spirit within a person”, and Ecclesiastes 12:7 says that at death “the spirit returns to God who gave it”. Both words also name the inner self that thinks, longs and worships. The Hebrew words are nephesh, soul, life or self, and ruach, spirit,…
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