Acts 15:28:4Acts.15.28.W4TAB
πνεύματι
pneumati
“Spirit”
- Transliteration
- PNEU-ma-ti
- Extended
- PNEU-mah-tih
- IPA
- /ˈpneu.ma.ti/
Meaning by language
- English
- Spirit
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
PNEU-ma-ti
- sentence
E-dok-sen gar tô PNEU-ma-ti tô ha-GI-ō KAI hê-MEEN mê-THEN PLE-on e-pi-TI-the-sthai hy-MEEN BA-ros PLÊN TOU-tōn tôn e-PA-nan-ges
Exegesis
The dative noun phrase tō pneumati tō hagiō {τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ | tôi pneú-ma-ti tôi ha-gí-ō} precedes to highlight the Holy Spirit as the divine agent.
Root and etymology
pneōpi–nu–epsilon–omega
“to blow, breathe”
In context — Acts 15:28
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to place on you no greater burden than these necessary things .
About this coordinate
Acts 15:28:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Acts 15:28, so the Greek word πνεύματι (pneumati) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Acts.15.28.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.15.28.W4.S1) and character.