Alike, therefore, in the starting-point and in the general range of usage there is a large measure of parallelism between the Hebrew and Greek terms, רוּחַ and πνεῦμα. But the order in which meanings are developed is not the same, and the Hebrews were far in advance of the Greeks in developing the idea of the divine spirit. נֶ֣פֶשׁ apparently begins with the notion of a living being resident in a living animal or man—the ghost, so to speak, within an embodied living being. The earliest extant usage