Translating the word:

In the Bible, the word "Soul" comes from the Hebrew word "nephesh" and its Greek equivalent "psykhe".

  As we can see in the following chart, it certainly doesn't have the immortal aspect to it that people think 

it does.

Abbreviations:

• N = New
• S = Standard
• A = American
• L = Living
• E = English
• B = Bible
• V = Version
• T = Translation
• W = World
• C = Contemporary
• T = Today
• I = International 

As we can see from the above, a SOUL  is simply......YOU!! It is not a separate being outside of you.

Even animals are souls-Revelation 16:3 SOUL; SELF; LIFE nepesh-"The noun refers to the essence 

of life, the act of breathing, taking a breath." W.E. Vine psyche-"denotes the breath, the breath of life.

" W.E. Vine The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (edited by C. Brown, 1978,

  Vol. 3, p. 304) states: "Matt. 10:28 teaches not the potential immortality of the soul but the irreversibility 

of divine judgment on the unrepentant."

"However much God may give his spirit to frail man, and however exalted the resurrected Jesus has become,  man, from the biblical point of view, is dust animated by spirit, and not body and separable soul, which is a Greek idea. 'Human Being' by definition denoted mortality, subject to frailty and death. 'It is appointed unto man once to die...' (Heb 9:27)." The Doctrine of the Trinity-Christianity's Self-Inflicted Wound by Anthony  Buzzard/Charles F. Hunting D.R.G. Owen, "Body and Soul in the New Testament," 

In Readings and Christian Theology, ed. M.J. Erickson  (Baker Book House, 1967), 86: "In Hebrew thought, as we have seen, the word translated 'Soul' regularly  stands simply for the personal pronoun and means the self, and the phrase 'body and soul'...stands for the  Hebrew idea that man is an 'animated body' and not for the Greek view that he is an 'incarnated soul.' "

"Many people today, even believing people. are far from understanding the basis of their faith...Quite unwittingly  they depend upon the philosophy of the Greeks rather than upon the word of God for an understanding of the  world they live in. An instance of this is the prevailing belief amongst Christians in the immortality of the soul. Many believers despair of this world; they despair of any meaning in a world where suffering and frustration seem to rule. And so they look for a release for their souls from the weight of the flesh, and they hope for an entry into the 'world of the spirit,' as they call it, a place where their souls will find a blessedness they cannot discover in the flesh. The Old Testament, which was of course the Scriptures of the early Church, has no  word at all for the modern (or ancient Greek) idea of  "soul". We have no right to read this modern word  into St. Paul's word "psyche", for by it he was not expounding what Plato had meant by the word; he was  expressing what Isaiah and what Jesus meant by it...There is one thing sure we can say at this point and that is that the popular doctrine of the soul's immortality cannot be traced back to the biblical teaching." -G.A.T. Knight, Law and Grace (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1962), 78, 79.