The Hebrew word used here for soul, Neʹphesh, occurs well over 700 times in the Hebrew Scriptures,
never once conveying the idea of a separate, ethereal, spiritual part of man.
Insight on the Scriptures states:“ Neʹphesh( soul)
is not used with reference to the creation of vegetable life on the third creative‘ day' or thereafter, since vegetation is bloodless.”- Published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York,