I assume you are talking about Greek word
"psuche" since it's the ONLY word in the New Testament that is translated as
"soul".
So how do you find that same Greek word
"psuche" translated in
Revelation 8:9 ?
"And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea,and the third part of the ships were destroyed."
105 Times in the New Testament, you'll find that same Greek word
"psuche",
of which it is translated "soul" ONLY 58 times,
but can also be rendered "life" (40 times), "mind" (three times),
and "heart," "heartily," "us" and "you" (one time each).
Again I say, someone much better at "proofs" than I, covered this subject long ago.
He
wrote it this way:
... The Greek word psuche is the exact Greek rendering of the Hebrew word nephesh and is used in the same way throughout the New Testament.
For example, psuche is used of the lower animals, just as you have seen nephesh used of lower life forms in the first chapter of the book of Genesis!
In Revelation 8:9, the Greek word psuche (remember this is the ONLY word which is ever used for the word "soul" in the English language)
is rendered "life. "
Notice also Revelation 16:3, where lower life forms are spoken of, yet the word "soul" is used.
Read that last scripture carefully!
It describes one of the horrible plagues yet to fall upon the land and the sea, and says "every living soul DIED"!
Here is one more New Testament proof that the word "soul" as it found its way into the English language means a being, or living thing, which can DIE!
In this case, it is used of various forms of life(of which there are thousands)
in the sea!
The Greek word psuche is also used for an individual.
On many occasions, in making out a flight plan when I was piloting a jet airplane, we would have to include the information of how many persons were aboard that flight.
All airlines dispatchers do the same things.
Oftentimes, many pilots calling in their flight plans would say they had so many "souls" on board, using the word interchangeably for individuals, or persons.
When a newspaper headline speaks of so many "souls" being lost in the sinking of a ship, it is using the word in much the same way as it occurs 14 different times in the Bible! In those passages, the Greek word psuche is used for the life of man, which can be destroyed, or lost.
A classic example of where the translators have tampered with the English in translating from the Greek is found in Matthew 16:25 and 26.
Notice the way it is rendered in the King James Version: "For whosoever will save his life [psuche] shall lose it;
and whosoever will lose his life [psuche] for my sake shall find it.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul [psuche]?
or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul [psuche]?"
Obviously, since the identical Greek word is used in both passages;
and since it is rendered differently in verse 26 (soul) from the way it is used in verse 25 (life),
it was a translator's decision as to changing the way he rendered this Greek word psuche in the two verses!
To be honest, and to be fair with the word, it should have been rendered the same in both passages!
Here, it is obvious the word should better be rendered "life, " just as it was rendered in verse 25!
For, after all, it is your life you can lose—and what can you give in exchange for your LIFE?
The point is,the Greek word psuche is capable of nearly as many applications as is the Hebrew word nephesh,
and can even be used of man's moods, passions and feelings!
The word psuche, for example, is translated "mind," "us," "you" "heart" and "heartily."
By NO stretch of the imagination can this Greek word EVER connote anything which is immortal, or "extraphysical, " in the sense of being spiritual.
The English word "soul" in the Old Testament is always taken from the Hebrew nephesh
and does NOT mean anything immortal;
just as the English word "soul" in the New Testament is taken from the Greek word psuche,
and only means mortal, temporal, human physical MAN, who is subject to death.