What is the soul?

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In Hebrew (as in English) the soul and the spirit are represented by different words (I believe ruach and nefesh, respectively). Does this mean that the soul and the spirit are different things? I tend to think they are, possibly that the soul is what you get when you combine the spirit with the body.
The Skeptics Dictionary treats soul and spirit as being the same thing, as do some (many? most?) Christians, like Billy Graham. Obviously, I don't agree with that interpretation.

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I do think there is an immaterial something or other that accounts for my ability to know that I exist. I don't know if I would identify it with either the soul or the spirit.

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Unless there is some compelling and cogent reason to do otherwise, this discussion should go into the Bible Study forum.

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They are different. We are made in God's image. Soul, spirit and body are of our trinity nature. Soul will carry your senses (may exclude some such as taste and smell, perhaps), it carries your consciousness and memory. It carries more senses for you to exist outside this 3D world, so that you can perceive more spaces such as the Third Heaven or Hades.I think (speculate actually) that our spirit will return to God after depature, it carries our earthly emotions (and perhaps some other things we might not know).