נֶ֫פֶשׁ noun, feminine: soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, passion

• 1.that which breathes, the breathing substance or being
• 2.The נפשׁ becomes a living being
• 3.The נפשׁ is specifically
• 4.The נפשׁ as the essential of man stands for the man himself
• 5.נפשׁ = seat of the appetites, in all periods (46 times)
• 6.נפש = seat of emotions and passions
• 7.נפשׁ is used occasionally for mental acts
• 8.נפשׁ for acts of the will is doubtful
• 9.נפשׁ = character is still more doubtful
• 10.נפש in D

Strong's H5315 נֶפֶשׁ: properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV:any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.