ANEMOS/PNEUMA

Matthew A. Eby ebymatt at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 4 13:44:18 EDT 2002


Many would say that there is double entendre with PNEUMA in John 3:8
(cf. the verb PNEW).

Matt Eby


--- Noel Fitzpatrick <njfitzpatrick at eircom.net> wrote:
<snip>
> Also out of 379 occurrences there is only one possible use of 
> PNEUMA as wind in the NT. 
> 
> This view seems to be supported by Liddell-Scott (Perseus site).
> 
> Thus is it correct to claim that PNEUMA is never used for wind in 
> the NT always for "spirit/breath"  and ANEMOS is never used for 
> spirit, but always for wind/storm?
>  
> Thus, if the focus is the GNT, wind and spirit are separate words, 
> with separate areas of meaning and no overlap.

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