pneuma – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
pneuma
n.
vital spirit; soul; holy spirit (Christianity)
Pneuma
Pneuma is an
ancient Greek word for "
breath", and in a religious context for "
spirit" or "
soul". It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of
classical antiquity, particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used in Greek translations of the
Hebrew Bible and in the
Greek New Testament. In classical philosophy, it is distinguishable from
psyche , which originally meant "breath of life", but is regularly translated as "
spirit" or most often "soul".
Pneuma (das)
n.
pneuma, vital spirit; soul; holy spirit (Christianity)
Pneuma
Pneuma (Greek) [from pneo to breathe] Wind, air, breath, vitality, spirit, an animated being, also a spiritual being; in the New Testament (John 3:8) "The wind bloweth where it listeth . . . so is every one who comes into being (or becomes) out of the Spirit" -- the word for both wind and spirit is the single word pneuma. It is also translated in the New Testament as "ghost," as in Holy Ghost and yielded up the ghost, and as "spirit" in various senses. The same connection between air and spirit is seen in the Latin anima (life) and animus (mind), which derive from the same root as the Greek anemos (wind); also in spiritus [from spiro to blow, breathe], and the same holds good in other languages, illustrating the correlation of air or wind with vitality: jiva, prana, mind, manas, etc. The triad of sun or fire, moon or water, and pneuma, spirit, or wind, corresponds with Father-Mother-Son and with atma-buddhi-manas. The word is equivalent to breath so often used in The Secret Doctrine, in a comprehensive sense.
pneuma
N F
spirit; [pneuma sacrum/sanctum => Holy Spitit/Ghost]
