'Life' in the Bible

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.