nephesh
/ˈnɛfɛʃ/noun
nephesh is a noun meaning “The tangible aspects of life, as possessed by human beings and the higher animals; sometimes translated as soul” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-P-H-E-S-H, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nephesh is nephashoth or nepheshes.
What does nephesh mean?
noun
- 1
The tangible aspects of life, as possessed by human beings and the higher animals; sometimes translated as soul.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nephesh?
- UK /ˈnɛfɛʃ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nephesh
- nephashoth plural
- nepheshes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nephesh?
Nephesh appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does nephesh come from?
Borrowed from Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).