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Nefesh, in the Old Testament, is a Semitic noun meaning "to blow, to exhale" and is conventionally translated as #soul. In reality it does not designate the soul in the common sense we attribute to this term today. It indicates more precisely the 'breath of respiration' and in particular the action of all those organs and apparatuses that contribute to this vital activity: throat, trachea, neck.
In the not yet Hellenised Hebrew thought, #nefesh therefore designated the vital activity of breathing and thus, in a broad sense, the life of the individual as such. It could correspond, more broadly and generically, to the idea of 'living being' or 'creature'.
The correlation between nefesh/soul and neck is artistically very present, especially in Marian #iconography.
0:30 Nefesh/soul: origin and meaning
01:01 The nephesh-neck correlation in Marian iconography
01:21 The activity of the breath
01:51 The seat of the soul
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