Strong's #5590: psuche (pronounced psoo-khay')
from 5594; breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from 4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from 2222, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew 5315, 7307 and 2416):--heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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psuchē
1) breath
1a) the breath of life
1a1) the vital force which animates the body and shows itself in breathing
1a1a) of animals
1a1b) of men
1b) life
1c) that in which there is life
1c1) a living being, a living soul
2) the soul
2a) the seat of the feelings, desires, affections, aversions (our heart, soul etc.)
2b) the (human) soul in so far as it is constituted that by the right use of the aids offered it by God it can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness, the soul regarded as a moral being designed for everlasting life
2c) the soul as an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death (distinguished from other parts of the body)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G5594
Citing in TDNT: 9:608, 1342
Usage:
This word is used 104 times:
Matthew 2:20: "which sought the young child's life."
Matthew 6:25: "I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat,"
Matthew 6:25: "what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat,"
Matthew 10:28: "are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear"
Matthew 10:28: "fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in"
Matthew 10:39: "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his"
Matthew 10:39: "and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."
Matthew 11:29: "ye shall find rest unto your souls."
Matthew 12:18: "in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit"
Matthew 16:25: "whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and"
Matthew 16:25: "and whosoever will lose his life for my sake"
Matthew 16:26: "and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give"
Matthew 16:26: "give in exchange for his soul?"
Matthew 20:28: "and to give his life a ransom for many."
Matthew 22:37: "with all thy soul, and with all thy"
Matthew 26:38: "saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death:"
Mark 3:4: "or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they"
Mark 8:35: "whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but"
Mark 8:35: "but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake"
Mark 8:36: "and lose his own soul?"
Mark 8:37: "give in exchange for his soul?"
Mark 10:45: "and to give his life a ransom for many."
Mark 12:30: "with all thy soul, and with all thy"
Mark 12:33: "with all the soul, and with all the"
Mark 14:34: "saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death:"
Luke 1:46: "Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,"
Luke 2:35: "sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of"
Luke 6:9: "or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy"
Luke 9:24: "whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but"
Luke 9:24: "but whosoever will lose his life for my sake,"
Luke 9:56: "come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went"
Luke 10:27: "with all thy soul, and with all thy"
Luke 12:19: "And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods"
Luke 12:19: "I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up"
Luke 12:20: "this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then"
Luke 12:22: "I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat;"
Luke 12:23: "The life is more than meat, and the body"
Luke 14:26: "yea, and his own life also, he cannot be"
Luke 17:33: "Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and"
Luke 21:19: "patience possess ye your souls."
John 10:11: "shepherd giveth his life for the sheep."
John 10:15: "Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep."
John 10:17: "because I lay down my life, that I might take it"
John 10:24: "him, and said unto him, How long"
John 12:25: "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his"
John 12:25: "and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep"
John 12:27: "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father,"
John 13:37: "thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake."
John 13:38: "him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily,"
John 15:13: "a man lay down his life for his friends."
