Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.
The Hebrew נֶפֶש or nephesh is usually translated as soul.
For the Greeks the soul was a mysterious, somewhat ghostly, potentially eternal element... possibly even a particle of God temporarily housed in a mortal body.
For the Jews nephesh is self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion. The soul is the outcome of how we choose to live.
Psalm 43
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