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The stages of development, the highest of which is the Holy Spirit, are as follows: zeal, integrity, purity, holiness, humility, fear of sin, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit conducts Elijah, who brings the dead to life. [22] Pious individuals act through the Holy Spirit; [23] whoever teaches the Torah in public partakes of the Holy Spirit. [24]
The Hebrew terms ruacḥ qodshəka, "thy holy spirit" (רוּחַ קָדְשְׁךָ), and ruacḥ qodshō, "his holy spirit" (רוּחַ קָדְשׁוֹ), also occur (when a possessive suffix is added the definite article ha is dropped). The Holy Spirit in Judaism generally refers to the divine aspect of prophecy and wisdom.
There are biblical translations where the pronoun used for the Holy Spirit is masculine, in contrast to the gender of the noun used for spirit in Hebrew and Aramaic. [3] In Aramaic also, the language generally considered to have been spoken by Jesus, the word is feminine.
A modern translator of the Quran, N. J. Dawood, states that "tranquility" is the English word for the Arabic meaning of sakīnah, yet it could be "an echo of the Hebrew shekeenah (the Holy Presence)." [45] Another scholar states that the Arabic sakīnah derives from the Hebrew/Aramaic shekhinah. [46]
Pneuma appears over 250 times in the Christian New Testament, and is the word used to refer to the Holy Spirit, i.e., the Spirit of God. As a result of the immediate explanation in John 14:17, the Paraclete in John 14:16 is considered to be the Holy Spirit. Depiction of the Holy Spirit as a Dove, from the Throne of Saint Peter, Saint Peter's ...
Qudšu was later used in Jewish Aramaic to refer to God. [4]Words derived from the root qdš appear some 830 times in the Hebrew Bible. [9] [10] Its use in the Hebrew Bible evokes ideas of separation from the profane, and proximity to the Otherness of God, while in nonbiblical Semitic texts, recent interpretations of its meaning link it to ideas of consecration, belonging, and purification.
Holy Spirit in Islam, a Quranic expression that describes a source or means of prophetic revelations; Holy Spirit in Judaism, the divine force, quality, and influence of God over the universe or over God's creatures Shekhinah, the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the presence of God in a place
According to their understanding, because "breath" and "spirit" in Hebrew are both "רוּחַ" ("ruach"), Psalm 33:6 is revealing the roles of the Son and Holy Spirit as co-creators. And since, according to them, [ 64 ] because only the holy God can create holy beings such as the angels, the Son and Holy Spirit must be God.