generally means the natural life of man. Beasts have souls (Gen. 1:21, 24, 30; Heb.) (that is) animal life. Man’s soul differs from theirs in being directly imparted together with His spirit by God, and hence is immortal (Psa. 16:10; Gen. 2.). The immortality of the soul we find mentioned by such a writer as Job, who was one of the earliest, and not a Jew (Job 33:28). We find him distinguishing between soul and spirit (Job 7:11, also 12:10). He speaks of all these, spirit, soul, and body (Job 10:1, 11, 12, and says in 19:26), that in his flesh he (that is the complete man, spirit, soul, and body) would see God. He points out that the body is mortal, but not the other two. The soul in Scripture departs from the body at death (Gen. 35:18), it can love (Gen. 34:3), has appetites (Lev. 7:18), lusts (Deut. 14:26), hates (2 Sam. 5:8), is troubled (Psa. 88:3), is relieved (Lam. 1:11), &c., &c. The soul thus is not the same, nor so high a part of man, as the spirit. See SPIRIT.