Genesis 25:8
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
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Ghost
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Jude 1:20
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
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45 occurrences in 44 verses.
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Genesis
44 verses
Job
55 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Matthew
77 verses
Mark
66 verses
Luke
1212 verses
John
55 verses
Acts
4544 verses
Romans
55 verses
1 Corinthians
33 verses
2 Corinthians
22 verses
1 Thessalonians
22 verses
2 Timothy
11 verses
Titus
11 verses
Hebrews
55 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
2 Peter
11 verses
1 John
11 verses
Jude
11 verses
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πνεῦμα
pneûma · pnyoo'-mah
90 times translated as this KJV form441 total Strong's occurrences
a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit
Strong's KJV usage: :--ghost, life, spirit(-ual, -ually), mind.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 1:18Strong's last: Jude 1:20
Open full G4151 profile →גָּוַע
gâvaʻ · gaw-vah'
9 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
to breathe out, i.e. (by implication) expire
Strong's KJV usage: die, be dead, give up the ghost, perish.
Strong's first: Genesis 25:8Strong's last: Lamentations 1:19
Open full H1478 profile →ἐκπνέω
ekpnéō · ek-pneh'-o
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to expire
Strong's KJV usage: :--give up the ghost.
Strong's first: Mark 15:37Strong's last: Luke 23:46
Open full G1606 profile →ἐκψύχω
ekpsýchō · ek-psoo'-kho
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to expire
Strong's KJV usage: :--give (yield) up the ghost.
Strong's first: Acts 5:5Strong's last: Acts 12:23
Open full G1634 profile →ἅγιος
hágios · hag'-ee-os
2 times translated as this KJV form232 total Strong's occurrences
sacred (physically, pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially, consecrated)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(most) holy (one, thing), saint.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 1:41Strong's last: Acts 8:17
Open full G40 profile →נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh · neh'-fesh
2 times translated as this KJV form738 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Strong's KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.
Strong's first: Job 11:20Strong's last: Jeremiah 15:9
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G4151
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
G1634
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
G1634
Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
G4151
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
G4151
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
G4151
And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
G4151
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
G4151
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
G4151
Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
G40
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
G4151
And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
G4151
Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
G4151
And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
G4151
Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
G4151
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
G4151
While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
G4151
And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
G4151
Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
G4151
And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
G4151
Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
G4151
For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
G1634
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
G4151
As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
G4151
So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
G4151
Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
English meaning and historical usage.
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ghost
GHOST, noun [See Ghastly.]
1. Spirit; the soul of man.
In this sense seldom used. But hence,
2. The soul of a deceased person; the soul or spirit separate from the body; an apparition.
The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.
To give up the ghost is to die; to yield up the breath or spirit; to expire.
The Holy ghost is the third person in the adorable Trinity.
GHOST, verb intransitive To die; to expire.
GHOST, verb transitive To haunt with an apparition.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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