latter point, it becomes a synonym of נֶ֣פֶשׁ, the one extending its psychical sense to include the physical and the other its physical to include the psychical. It never acquires a mental, moral, or religious sense. Its nearest approach to such meaning—and this still very remote—is its use with the suggestion of weakness and frailty. Broadly speaking, therefore, רוּחַ is physical-religious-psychical; נֶ֣פֶשׁ is psychical-vital; בָּשָׂר is physical. But an instructive parallel may also be drawn between