Cross-language soul vocabulary
Lanes
A lane groups one soul-concept as it appears across languages — Greek, Latin, and Hebrew terms that scholarship reads together, each membership carrying its own receipt. A lane does not assert that its words mean the same thing. Every receipt is labelled with what it is: a published lexicon gloss, a named authority statement, or an unreviewed machine-proposed passage alignment.
The soul as the animating principle of a living body — the life that a body has and a corpse has lost, distinct from mere biological subsistence.
10 members across 6 languages → Breath / SpiritBreath understood as the life-force and animating principle — the soul as the moving air that enters a body at birth and leaves it at death.
12 members across 6 languages → Spirit / WindPneumatic substance theologized — breath-of-life raised to spirit, the wind that is also the divine animating power.
5 members across 4 languages → HeartThe heart as bodily organ and as seat of feeling, courage, and inward resolve.
7 members across 4 languages → Mind / IntellectThe faculty of perceiving, planning, and intuitive understanding — mind as the seat of thought.
8 members across 4 languages → Blood / Vital-affectiveThe blood-borne, vapor-like seat of drive and passion — the surge of vital feeling in the chest.
4 members across 2 languages → Daimōn / SelfThe guiding, allotted self — the divine-in-person, the spirit that is one's own portion.
6 members across 4 languages → Diaphragm / Seat of thoughtThe phrenes — the midriff as the physical organ that is also the seat of thought and feeling.
3 members across 1 languages →Ask across languages