pneuma

Noun

Meaning

(music) A neume.

The spirit or soul.

(Gnosticism) One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul.

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Examples

According to Habermas, if Paul meant that we would change into a spiritual body then Paul would have used the Greek pneuma instead of soma. Source: Internet

Gratzer 2005, p. 39. Galen believed in the bodily humours of Hippocrates, and he taught that pneuma is the source of life. Source: Internet

For the decades to follow, scientists and scholars believed the ancient descriptions of a sacred, inspiring pneuma to be fallacious. Source: Internet

Creation is penetrated by the pneuma hylikon, "world spirit," which is common to angels, stars, men, animals, and plants. Source: Internet

God is spirit (pneuma), but not the physical or stoical pneuma; he was alone before the creation, but he had within himself potentially the whole creation. Source: Internet

He conducted many anatomical studies on animals, most famously an ox, to study the transition from vital to psychic pneuma. Source: Internet

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