living creature
"Creature," Hebrew, Nephesh, translated Soul in (Genesis 2:7) and usually. In itself nephesh, or soul, implies self-conscious life, as distinguished from plants, which have unconscious life. In the sense of self-conscious life animals also have "soul."
See (Genesis 1:26-27); (Genesis 2:7); (Genesis 2:21-23).
( See Scofield) - (Genesis 1:26).