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# soul

«soul» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **person, living being** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

person, living being

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The whole living person or creature; the self. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/soul/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today soul usually means the spirit inside a person, which may live on after death, or deep feeling. In Leviticus "my soul" means I myself, and "soul" means a living person; the poetry sentence uses today's sense.

### examples

- And I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. (Torah LEV.26.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/soul/#x1)
- You have a soul for poetry. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/soul/#x2)
- On another, it refers to something less tangible, approaching the kind of phantom essence implied by the English term ‘soul’. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/soul/#x3)

### primary record

soul

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 387 (Torah 88, tales 283, Sefer Yetzirah 16); EWT 2; ratio 8.8 (Torah alone 41.1); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.793/)
- [And his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1057/)
- [And Hamor spoke with them, saying 'The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1062/)
- [These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the souls were fourteen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1525/)
- [And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «soul» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/soul/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.