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πνεῦμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πνεῦμα πνεύματος

Structure: πνευματ (Stem)

Etym.: pne/w

Sense

  1. air
  2. wind
  3. breath
  4. (phonology) breathing
  5. life
  6. spirit, soul
  7. spiritual being: spirit, angel
  8. inspiration (often divine inspiration), genius

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἔπεσαν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν καὶ εἶπαν. Θεόσ, Θεὸσ τῶν πνευμάτων καὶ πάσησ σαρκόσ, εἰ ἄνθρωποσ εἷσ ἥμαρτεν, ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν συναγωγὴν ὀργὴ Κυρίου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 16:22)
  • ἐπισκεψάσθω Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τῶν πνευμάτων καὶ πάσησ σαρκὸσ ἄνθρωπον ἐπὶ τῆσ συναγωγῆσ ταύτησ, (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 27:16)
  • φύσεισ ζῴων καὶ θυμοὺσ θηρίων, πνευμάτων βίασ καὶ διαλογισμοὺσ ἀνθρώπων, διαφορὰσ φυτῶν καὶ δυνάμεισ ριζῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 7:20)
  • φιλάνθρωπον, βέβαιον, ἀσφαλέσ, ἀμέριμνον, παντοδύναμον, πανεπίσκοπον καὶ διὰ πάντων χωροῦν πνευμάτων νοερῶν καθαρῶν λεπτοτάτων. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 7:23)
  • καὶ εἶπε πρόσ με. προφήτευσον ἐπὶ τὸ πνεῦμα, προφήτευσον, υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, καὶ εἰπὸν τῷ πνεύματι. τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ. ἐκ τῶν τεσσάρων πνευμάτων ἐλθὲ καὶ ἐμφύσησον εἰσ τοὺσ νεκροὺσ τούτουσ, καὶ ζησάτωσαν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 37:9)

Synonyms

  1. air

  2. wind

  3. breath

  4. breathing

  5. life

  6. spirit

  7. spiritual being

  8. inspiration

Related

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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