“And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.”
Genesis 2:19
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Neshamah is the breath of life God Himself breathed into the man's nostrils (Genesis 2:7). That close, personal in-breathing sets the man apart from the animals made of the same dust.
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In the ancient world the one who named someone held authority over them, as Adam does here with the animals. Pharaoh renamed Joseph (Genesis 41:45) and a Babylonian official renamed Daniel and his friends (Daniel 1:7). The same holds when God gives Jacob a new name.
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