BDB5309

נפשׁ (√ of following; compare Arabic soul, life, person, living being, blood, desire, breath, sweet odour, be high in estimation, become avaricious; III. desire a thing, aspire to it, see breathe, sigh. Assyrian napâšu, get breath, be broad, extended; napištu, life, less frequently soul, living being, person. Vbs. apparently denominative; nouns in all Semitic languages: Phoenician נפש, CIS^{i. 86 B 5}, Ethiopic ; in the following = both soul, person, and tombstone, monument (as representing person, see especially Duval^{Rev. Sémit. ii (1894), 259 ff.}): Late Hebrew נפשׁ see Levy^{ZMG xii (1858), 215}; Old Aramaic נפש, Nabataean, Palmyrene נפש, see Lzb³²⁵ Cook⁸²; Syriac , see 1 Macc 13:27; 13:28; Sabean נפס Levy-Os^{ZMG xix (1865), 255. 290} Mordtm^{ib, xxxii (1878), 202} compare Lihyan., DHM^{Epigr. Denkm. 67, Min.} Hom^{Südarab. Chrest. 128}).

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