"The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2:7) The word soul is synonymous with the words being, creature, and man.

The dust out of which Jehovah formed the body was not conscious.

It had no life in it.

After God had used these elements to form the man, he breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, which animated the body, caused the lungs to begin to work, sent the blood tingling through the arteries and returning through the veins; therefore there resulted a moving, breathing, sentient being, a man, which is a soul.

The body aside from the breath does not constitute the soul; but it requires the uniting of the breath with the body to constitute the soul.