His soul departed, his spirit departed, he breathed his last/ to die/ to breathe one's last
Died. His soul departed.
("And it came to pass, when her soul departed, that she died, that her name was called Ben-Oni: and his father called him Benjamin" - in the beginning of Lahia 18 (the death of our mother Rachel), and also: "Whom didst thou say, 'From whom shall thy spirit go forth?'" - Job 24, and also: "His spirit shall go forth, he shall return to his ground; in that day his bones shall perish" - Tehillim Kemu 4, and also: "And it came to pass, when he said, 'The blessing of the fathers is come,'" Many of them fainted and were weakened, and their spirit was almost gone" - Agnon/ The Tales of the Nineveh, The Disgrace, and so on: "Let his limbs be frozen and he shall sink without strength/ On the ground and he shall groan and be silent and his spirit shall depart into darkness" - Nathan Jonathan/ At the end of the summer we arrived at Brindisi)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
יָצְאָה נַפְשׁוֹ, יָצְאָה נִשְׁמָתוֹ, יָצְאָה רוּחוֹ
Definition (Hebrew)
מֵת. פָּרְחָה נִשְׁמָתוֹ.
("וַיְהִי בְּצֵאת נַפְשָׁהּ כִּי מֵתָה וַתִּקְרָא שְׁמוֹ בֶּן אוֹנִי וְאָבִיו קָרָא לוֹ בִנְיָמִין"- בְּרֵאשִׁית לָהּ יח (מוֹת רָחֵל אִמֵּנוּ), וְכֵן:"אֶת מִי הִגַּדְתָּ מִלִּין וְנִשְׁמַת מִי יָצְאָה מִמֶּךָּ"- אִיּוֹב כו ד, וְכֵן:"תֵּצֵא רוּחוֹ יָשֻׁב לְאַדְמָתוֹ בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא אָבְדוּ עֶשְׁתֹּנֹתָיו"- תְּהִלִּים קָמוּ ד, וְכֵן:"וַיְהִי בְּאָמְרוֹ בִּרְכַּת אָבוֹת נִתְעַלְּפוּ רֻבָּם וְנֶחְלְשׁוּ וְכִמְעַט יָצְאָה נִשְׁמָתָם"- עַגְנוֹן/ סִפּוּרֵי הַבֵּעשְׁ"ט, הַבִּזָּיוֹן, וְכֵן:"אַט יִקְפְּאוּ אֵיבָרָיו וְיִצְנַח אֵין אוֹנִים/ עַל הָאָרֶץ וְיֵאָנַח וְיָדוּם וְתֵצֵא נִשְׁמָתוֹ אֱלֵי חֹשֶׁךְ"- נָתָן יוֹנָתָן/ בְּסוֹף הַקַּיִץ הִגַּעְנוּ לִבְּרִינְדִּיזְיוּם)