SOTTISH (sot'tish), (Heb. very ignorant, stupid, and foolish, Jer. iv:22).
SOUL (sol), (generally the rendering of Heb. a breathing creature; Gr. tfritxt), fisoo khay', breath, etc., the equivalent of The Hebrew term "may indicate not only the entire inner nature of man, but also his entire personality, i. e., all that pertains to the person of man ;" "in the sense of persons: somebody, everybody (Deut. xxvi:i6; Josh. x :39; xi ;41, 14) ; and numbers are reckoned, as well in the New Testament as in the Old, by souls (i Pet. iii :20). It would thence be wrongly concluded that the soul is what constitutes the person of man; for the brute is also (neh'fesh). In (neh'fesh) in itself is not involved the con ception of the personal living, but only of the living (the individual), In such cases (neh' fesh) indicates the person of the man, but not the man as a person. The beast is (neh'fesh), as a self-living nature by the power of the Spirit that proceeds from God and pervades entire nature, the individual constitution of which spirit is the soul of the brute; but man is (neh'fesh), as a self-living nature by the power of the Spirit that proceeds from God, and is in the form of God, and is therefore personal, the operation of which spirit is his endowment with soul." (Delitzsch, Bib. Psych., pp. 181, 182.) Another philosopher, German, says: "The soul is the principle of the unity of our spiritual bod ily organism, the internal central unity of the functions of life. It is related to the body as
form to matter. It can as little exist without body as form can exist separate from matter. Nor can the body exist without the soul ; both develop and involve each other. The soul per meates the entire body ; is omnipresent in every molecule of it. The substratum of the psychical, however, is one which is extended through the entire world. and linked into one system by uni versal force." It is that vital, active principle in man, which perceives, remembers, reasons, loves, hopes, fears, compares, desires, resolves, adores, imagines and aspires after immortality.
The Greek term Ifruxi (fisoo-khajl, has the simple meaning of life (Matt. vi:25; Luke xii: 22); that in which there is life, a living being (1 Cor. xv :45) ; every soul, 1. e., every one (Acts ii :43 ; iii :23 ; Rom. It is used of the affections (Acts iv :32; xiv :22: comp. Matt. xxii :37; I Thess. v :23). where the soul is distinguished from the mind, heart and spirit ; of the spiritual essence, as distinct from the body (Matt. x :28). (Sec SPIRIT.) SOUR (sour), (Ileb. bo'ser, immature, Jer.
xxxt:29, 3o; Ezek. xviii:2, and Hos. iv:18).