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- While “psuche” is gentle (i.e., the frailty of earthly life), “pneuma” can be gentle at times (i.e., the tenderness of the Holy Spirit, but the spirit life is eternal and not frail). While the soul (“psuche”) is often attributed as “the mind, will, and emotions,” scripture often shows those stirring out of the spirit (“pneuma”) as well.
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Oct 10, 2014 · In conclusion, in a Biblical text the Greek word 'psuche' is translated into the English word 'soul', and refers to an 'earthy spirit'; while the Greek word 'pneuma' is translated into the English word 'spirit/Spirit', and refers to God's Holy Spirit.
Jun 27, 2024 · Jesus similarly described his physical death as the giving up of his pneuma (Matt. 27:50; Luke 23:46, cf. 24:37; John 19:30). Like the Old Testament term nephesh, the New Testament word psuche can refer to a person’s seat of emotion or volition.
It says nothing at all about form, shape, or composition. It states only this fact, and one must look elsewhere in the Bible to find information concerning His form and shape. The word spirit is translated in the Old Testament from the Hebrew ruach, and in the New Testament the Greeek pneuma. Both of these words have the same fundamental ...
The pneuma represents an individual’s deepest thoughts and emotions (Mark 2:8; John 11:33; 1 Corinthians 2:11). The “spirit” – in conjunction with the “body” (soma, 1 Corinthians 7:34), the flesh (sarx, 2 Corinthians 7:1) and “soul” (psuche, 1 Thessalonians 5:23) – represents the whole person.
The New Testament uses psuche in a broad range of contexts and usages that perfectly parallel its Old Testament equivalent. Psuche can mean a soul, an individual, a life, or a being, in either a physical sense, emotional sense, or fully spiritual sense.
The important point to remember is that John specifically identifies them as having been "slain"—they are dead. The Bible elsewhere shows that "the dead know nothing" (Ecclesiastes 9:5) and cannot work, plan, learn, or pursue any activity in the grave (verse 10).
B. Pneuma refers to personal emotion, attitude, thought, desire or will. 2 Corinthians 7:13 says, “…we were especially delighted to see how happy Titus was, because his spirit [pneuma] has been refreshed by all of you.” The holy spirit born within a believer does not need refreshment.
