pneuma

What it means

Breath, wind, or spirit. In Acts it is chiefly the Holy Spirit, who is promised in 1:5-8, poured out at Pentecost (2:4), and fills the church throughout.

Range of meaning

• SpiritThe Holy Spirit, or a spirit being.
• BreathLife, the breath of a person.
• WindMoving air.

In Acts

• Chapter 1

  "You will be baptized in the Holy Spirit" (1:2, 1:5, 1:8, 1:16).

• Chapter 2

  "I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh" (2:4, 2:17-18, 2:33, 2:38).

• Chapter 6

  "Full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom" (6:3, 6:5, 6:10).

• Chapter 7

  "You always resist the Holy Spirit" (7:51, 7:55, 7:59).

• Chapter 8

  The Spirit given by laying on of hands, and the Spirit who tells Philip to go (8:15-19, 8:29, 8:39).

• Chapter 9

  "Be filled with the Holy Spirit" (9:17, 9:31).

• Chapter 10

  "The Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard" (10:19, 10:38, 10:44-47).

• Chapter 11

  "The Holy Spirit fell on them" (11:12, 11:15-16, 11:24, 11:28).

• Chapter 19

  "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" (19:2, 19:6, 19:15-16, 19:21).