Lexicon
πνευματικός
pneumatikos
G4152
G:A Greek

spiritual

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Pneumatikos describes people, bodies, gifts, practices, and other things presented as spiritual in the cited clauses.

The adjective marks a wide range of people and things as spiritual: persons who discern or restore others, bodily existence, and such matters as gifts, food and drink, understanding, songs, blessings, and sacrifices. The supplied verses do not require separate lexical senses for these different nouns; they show the same qualification applied in varied clauses.

Senses in use

  1. Spiritual qualification of people and things · dominant

    The term qualifies persons in 1 Corinthians 2:15, where the nominative masculine singular identifies the person who discerns all things, and in Galatians 6:1, where the nominative masculine plural addresses those to restore someone overtaken in trespass. It also qualifies concrete and communal matters: in 1 Corinthians 10:3 the APB renders the clause about eating the same “spiritual food,” while 1 Peter 2:5 renders a “spiritual house” and “spiritual sacrifices.” In 1 Corinthians 15:44, the nominative neuter form describes the body that is raised.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB generally uses “spiritual” both before named nouns and substantivally for persons or things. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, its phrasing confirms the clauses' presentation without isolating every contribution of the Greek adjective.

Passages featuring this word

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