نَفْسًا a soul in Arabic
نَفْسًا is how you say “a soul” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
رَجُلٌ قَتَلَ تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ نَفْسًا،
A man killed ninety-nine people.
نَفْسًا a soul
After a number in this range Arabic counts the thing in the singular and puts it in the object-style (accusative) ending, which is why this 'soul/person' word appears as one singular noun specifying what was counted. So the singular here does not mean a single victim; it is the grammar of counting at work.
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وَقَالَ تَعَالَى مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ
And the Exalted said: From the sake of that, it was prescribed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul without a soul or
نَفْسًا a soul
An indefinite noun 'a soul/life' (no al- 'the'), the object of 'killed' in the accusative (object) form. Its indefinite shape keeps it general - any single life. As the thing killed it is what the verb acts upon, soon qualified by 'without [the cause of] a soul'.