As far as I can tell, there is no word for “body” in Biblical Hebrew. The word for body in modern (and Rabbinic) Hebrew is “guf”. The word “guf” appears only twice in the Tanach, in Divrei Hayamim, and it means “corpse”, which is not exactly the same thing. (Maybe the Tanach has another word for body, but if it does, I’m not aware of it.)
Souls, on the other hand, are all over the place in Tanach. (The Tanach has three words for soul: neshama, nefesh and ruach.)
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