Greek semantic word

πνεῦμα

Transliteration: pneuma

14 lexical sense(s); 386 exact STEP occurrence token(s).

Lexical senses and semantic domains

Sense 1: Spirit, Spirit of God, Holy Spirit

a title for the third person of the Trinity, literally: spirit

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-01
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Sense 2: spirit

a supernatural non-material being

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-02
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Sense 3: demon, evil spirit

an evil supernatural being or spirit

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-03
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Sense 4: ghost

an apparition

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-04
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Sense 5: spirit, spiritual, spiritual nature, inner being

the non-material, psychological faculty which is potentially sensitive and responsive to God (πνεῦμα[e] contrasts with σάρξ[f], semantic domain 26.7, as an expression of the divine in contrast with the purely human)

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-05
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Sense 6: disposition, attitude, way of thinking

(compare πνεῦμα[e] ‘inner being,’ semantic domain 26.9) an attitude or disposition reflecting the way in which a person thinks about or deals with some matter

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-06
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Sense 7: wind, blowing, to blow

air in relatively rapid movement, but without specification as to the force of the movement

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-07
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Sense 8: breath

a breath of air coming from the lungs

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-08
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Sense 9: unclean spirit

(a fixed phrase) an evil supernatural spirit which is ritually unclean and which causes persons to be ritually unclean

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Sense 10: demon, evil spirit

(a fixed phrase equivalent in reference to πνεῦμα[c] ‘demon,’ semantic domain 12.37, but with specific emphasis upon evil) a supernatural evil being

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Sense 11: to show enthusiasm, to commit oneself completely to

(an idiom, literally: to boil in the spirit) to show great eagerness toward something

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-11
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Sense 12: to die

(an idiom, literally: to give over the spirit) to die, with the possible implication of a willing or voluntary act

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-12
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Sense 13: to be humble

(an idiom, literally: poor in spirit) pertaining to one who is humble with regard to his own capacities (in the one NT occurrence, namely, Matthew 5:3, this humility is in relationship to God)

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-13
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Sense 14: to make up one’s mind, to decide

(an idiom, literally: to place in the mind) to engage in the process of deciding

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SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004054-14
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Lemma ID
SDBC-GRK-LEMMA-004054
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Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
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