Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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Spirit
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Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
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37 occurrences in 32 verses.
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Genesis
55 verses
Exodus
55 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Numbers
119 verses
Deuteronomy
22 verses
Joshua
11 verses
Judges
99 verses
1 Samuel
1916 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
1 Kings
77 verses
2 Kings
33 verses
1 Chronicles
54 verses
2 Chronicles
1111 verses
Ezra
22 verses
Nehemiah
22 verses
Job
1414 verses
Psalms
1818 verses
Proverbs
1514 verses
Ecclesiastes
1916 verses
Isaiah
3732 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Ezekiel
2622 verses
Daniel
1010 verses
Hosea
22 verses
Joel
22 verses
Micah
33 verses
Haggai
42 verses
Zechariah
66 verses
Malachi
32 verses
Matthew
1010 verses
Mark
1716 verses
Luke
2121 verses
John
1815 verses
Acts
2424 verses
Romans
2922 verses
1 Corinthians
3528 verses
2 Corinthians
1513 verses
Galatians
1815 verses
Ephesians
1515 verses
Philippians
44 verses
Colossians
22 verses
1 Thessalonians
33 verses
2 Thessalonians
33 verses
1 Timothy
33 verses
2 Timothy
22 verses
Philemon
11 verses
Hebrews
33 verses
James
22 verses
1 Peter
77 verses
1 John
128 verses
Jude
11 verses
Revelation
1616 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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πνεῦμα
pneûma · pnyoo'-mah
256 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 3:16Strong's last: Revelation 22:17
Open full G4151 profile →רוּחַ
rûwach · roo'-akh
227 times translated as this KJV form377 total Strong's occurrences
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
Strong's KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, × cool, courage, mind, × quarter, × side, spirit(-ual), tempest, × vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).
Strong's first: Genesis 1:2Strong's last: Malachi 2:16
Open full H7307 profile →רוּחַ
rûwach · roo'-akh
8 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: mind, spirit, wind.
Strong's first: Daniel 4:8Strong's last: Daniel 7:15
Open full H7308 profile →אוֹב
ʼôwb · obe
7 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a mumble, i.e. a water-skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)
Strong's KJV usage: bottle, familiar spirit.
Strong's first: Leviticus 20:27Strong's last: Isaiah 29:4
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phántasma · fan'-tas-mah
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
(properly concrete) a (mere) show ("phantasm"), i.e. spectre
Strong's KJV usage: :--spirit.
Strong's first: Matthew 14:26Strong's last: Mark 6:49
Open full G5326 profile →נְשָׁמָה
nᵉshâmâh · nesh-aw-maw'
2 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal
Strong's KJV usage: blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 26:4Strong's last: Proverbs 20:27
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ho · ho
1 times translated as this KJV form1,134 total Strong's occurrences
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
Strong's KJV usage: :--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Strong's first: Acts 21:4Strong's last: Acts 21:4
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G4151
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
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And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
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And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
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And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
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And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
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And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
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And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,
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(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
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And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.
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And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.
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And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.
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But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
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In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
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If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
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When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
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And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
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And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
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But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
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Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
English meaning and historical usage.
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spirit
SPIR'IT, noun [Latin spiritus, from spiro, to breathe, to blow. The primary sense is to rush or drive.]
1. Primarily, wind; air in motion; hence, breath. All bodies have spirits and pneumatical parts within them. [This sense is now unusual.]
2. Animal excitement, or the effect of it; life; ardor; fire; courage; elevation or vehemence of mind. The troops attacked the enemy with great spirit The young man has the spirit of youth. He speaks or act with spirit Spirits, in the plural, is used in nearly a like sense. The troops began to recover their spirits.
3. Vigor of intellect; genius. His wit, his beauty and his spirit The noblest spirit or genius cannot deserve enough of mankind to pretend to the esteem of heroic virtue.
4. Temper; disposition of mind, habitual or temporary; as a man of a generous spirit or of a revengeful spirit; the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit Let us go to the house of God in the spirit of prayer.
5. The soul of man; the intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of human beings. [See Soul.] the spirit shall return to God that gave it. Eceles. 12.
6. An immaterial intelligent substance. spirit is a substance in which thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving do subsist. Hence,
7. An immaterial intelligent being. By which he went and preached to the spirit in prison. I Pet. 3. God is a spirit John 4:23.
8. Turn of mind; temper; occasions; state of the mind. A perfect judge will read each work of wit, with the same spirit that its author writ.
9. Powers of mind distinct from the body. In spirit perhaps he also saw Rich Mexico, the seat of Montezume.
10. Sentiment; perception. You spirit is too true, your fears too certain.
11. Eager desire; disposition of mind excited and directed to a particular object. God has made a spirit of building succeed a spirit of pulling down.
12. A person of activity; a man of life, vigor or enterprise. The watery kingdom is no bar to stop the foreign spirits, but they come.
13. Persons distinguished by qualities of the mind. Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.
14. Excitement of mind; animation; cheerfulness; usually in the plural. We found our friend in very good spirits. He has a great flow of spirits. -To sing thy praise, would heaven my breath prolong, Infusing spirits worthy such a song.
15. Life or strength of resemblance; essential qualities; as, to set off the face in its true spirit The copy has not the spirit of the original.
16. Something eminently pure and refined. Nor doth the eye itself, that most pure spirit of sense, behold itself.
17. That which hath power or energy; the quality of any substance which manifest life, activity, or the power of strongly affecting other bodies; as the spirit of wine or of any liquor.
18. A strong, pungent or stimulation liquor, usually obtained by distillation, as rum, brandy, gin, whiskey. In America, spirit used without other words explanatory of its meaning, signifies the liquor distilled from cane-juice, or rum. We say, new spirit or old spirit Jamaica spirit etc.
19. An apparition; a ghost.
20. The renewed nature of man. Matthew 26:41. Galatians 5:5.
21. The influences of the Holy spirit Matthew 22:43.
HOLY SPIRIT, the third person in the Trinity.
SPIRIT, verb transitive
1. To animate; to actuate; as a spirit
So talkd the spirited sly snake. [Little used.]
2. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; as, civil dissensions spirit the ambition of private man.
It is sometimes followed by up; as, to spirit up.
3. To kidnap.
To spirit away, to entice or seduce.
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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