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Biblical inspiration is the doctrine in Christian theology that the human writers and canonizers of the Bible were led by God with the result that their writings may be designated in some sense the word of God. [1] This belief is traditionally associated with concepts of the biblical infallibility and the internal consistency of the Bible.
Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath", and in a religious context for "spirit" or "soul". [1] [2] It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity, particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used in Greek translations of ruach רוח in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Greek New Testament.
And the Lord God created man in two formations; and took dust from the place of the house of the sanctuary, and from the four winds of the world, and mixed from all the waters of the world, and created him red, black, and white; and breathed into his nostrils the inspiration of life, and there was in the body of Adam the inspiration of a ...
"Breath": translated from the Hebrew word נְשָׁמָה neshamah, which is used in Genesis 2:7 as 'breathed into Adam' to make him a living person (“soul”); in this verse is paralleled to the "spirit" רוּחַ, ruakh, in the first line, which is interpreted by some commentators as the "Spirit of God" (cf. Job 33:4). See also
Trichotomists believe that God's breath of life, when breathed into man's body of dust, became man's human spirit. [4] [5] [6] Proverbs 20:27 uses the same Hebrew word (neshamah) for the spirit of man, indicating that God's breathe of life and man's spirit are closely related. [7]
The "Spirit of God" hovering over the waters in some translations of Genesis 1:2 comes from the Hebrew phrase ruach elohim, which has alternately been interpreted as a "great wind". [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Victor P. Hamilton decides, somewhat tentatively, for "spirit of God" but notes that this does not necessarily refer to the "Holy Spirit" of Christian ...
Nephesh. Nephesh (נֶ֫פֶשׁ nép̄eš), also spelled nefesh is a Biblical Hebrew word which occurs in the Hebrew Bible. The word refers to the aspects of sentience, and human beings and other animals are both described as being nephesh. [1][2] Bugs and plants, as examples of live organisms, are not referred in the Bible as being nephesh.
The origin of the word is from Proto-Semitic *ʔil and is thus cognate to the Hebrew, Arabic, Akkadian, and other Semitic languages' words for god. Elah is found in the Tanakh in the books of Ezra , Jeremiah (Jeremiah 10:11, [ 68 ] the only verse in the entire book written in Aramaic), [ 69 ] and Daniel .