נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh · neh'-fesh · noun · “soul, life, self”
Nephesch heißt Seele, Leben, Selbst — der ganze lebendige Mensch. Die hebräische Bibel sieht den Menschen nicht als eine im Leib gefangene Seele, sondern als ein lebendiges Wesen — Leib und Atem zusammen.
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Nephesh is often translated “soul,” but it rarely means an immaterial part separate from the body. It refers to the living self — appetite, desire, life itself. “The man became a living nephesh” when God breathed into him.
So when the Psalmist cries, “Bless the LORD, O my nephesh,” he summons his whole self to worship. The word reminds us that biblical faith engages the entire person, not just a “spiritual” compartment.
Definition: properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.
Reference gloss from Strong's Concordance (1890, public domain).