2. Noun. the spirit or soul ¹
3. Noun. (Gnosticism) one of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pneuma
1. the soul or spirit [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pneuma
1. In ancient Greek philosophy and medicine:1. Air or an all-pervading fiery essence in the air (which today would be identified with oxygen) which was the creative and animating spirit of the universe; drawn into the body through the lungs it generated and sustained the innate heat in the left ventricle of the heart and was distributed by the arteries to the brain and all parts of the body. 2. Soul or psyche. Origin: G. Pneuma, air, breath (05 Mar 2000)
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Literary usage of Pneuma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Vision: The Micro-cosmology of Galenic Visual Theory by Bruce Eastwood (1982)
"At the center of the second treatise the psychic pneuma and its origins appear.
This pneuma is the focus of the third tract as well, which discusses (1) the ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Two views of the Pauline psychology are: (1) That Paul knows no pneuma of the
... But the Pauline doctrine of pneuma is that of a divine principle of life, ..."
3. The Tripartite Nature of Man, Spirit, Soul, and Body: Applied to Illustrate by John Bickford Heard (1875)
"The distinction of Psyche and pneuma,* on which the doctrine of the trichotomy
chiefly rests, was caught by the Greek fathers, but in most cases they ..."
4. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1867)
"no pneuma. He cannot know God, or worship him, or have sense of ... Having a
pneuma he can become the habitation of God, the temple of the Holy pneuma. ..."
5. A System of Biblical Psychology by Franz Delitzsch (1885)
"NOUS, LOGOS, pneuma.1 SEC. V. WHEN the eternal person who was manifested in ...
84, that Lor/us nowhere occurs in Scripture as a part of man, and pneuma ..."
6. The Berean: A Manual for the Help of Those who Seek the Faith of the by John Humphrey Noyes (1847)
"And as the Greek word pneuma primarily means breath, air, or wind, (being used
in this latter sense in the subsequent context of this very passage, ver. ..."
7. Lang's German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied by Hugo Lang, Milton Kayton Meyers (1913)
"2. instrument for transmitting chest sounds through the mouth of the patient
pneuma-tose, /. abnormal accumulation of gas in body pneuma-turie, ..."
8. The Elements of Vision: The Micro-cosmology of Galenic Visual Theory by Bruce Eastwood (1982)
"At the center of the second treatise the psychic pneuma and its origins appear.
This pneuma is the focus of the third tract as well, which discusses (1) the ..."
9. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Two views of the Pauline psychology are: (1) That Paul knows no pneuma of the
... But the Pauline doctrine of pneuma is that of a divine principle of life, ..."
10. The Tripartite Nature of Man, Spirit, Soul, and Body: Applied to Illustrate by John Bickford Heard (1875)
"The distinction of Psyche and pneuma,* on which the doctrine of the trichotomy
chiefly rests, was caught by the Greek fathers, but in most cases they ..."
11. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1867)
"no pneuma. He cannot know God, or worship him, or have sense of ... Having a
pneuma he can become the habitation of God, the temple of the Holy pneuma. ..."
12. A System of Biblical Psychology by Franz Delitzsch (1885)
"NOUS, LOGOS, pneuma.1 SEC. V. WHEN the eternal person who was manifested in ...
84, that Lor/us nowhere occurs in Scripture as a part of man, and pneuma ..."
13. The Berean: A Manual for the Help of Those who Seek the Faith of the by John Humphrey Noyes (1847)
"And as the Greek word pneuma primarily means breath, air, or wind, (being used
in this latter sense in the subsequent context of this very passage, ver. ..."
14. Lang's German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied by Hugo Lang, Milton Kayton Meyers (1913)
"2. instrument for transmitting chest sounds through the mouth of the patient
pneuma-tose, /. abnormal accumulation of gas in body pneuma-turie, ..."
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