Dictionaries :: Ghost (Give up The)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Ghost (Give up The):

lit., "to breathe out" (ek, "out," pneo, "to breathe"), "to expire," is used in the NT, without an object, "soul" or "life" being understood, Mar 15:37, 39; and Luk 23:46, of the death of Christ. In Mat 27:50; Jhn 19:30, where different verbs are used, the act is expressed in a way which stresses it as of His own volition: in the former, "Jesus... yielded up His spirit (pneuma); in the latter, "He gave up His spirit."

Ghost (Give up The):

"to expire," lit., "to breathe out the soul (or life), to give up the ghost" (ek, "out," psuche, "the soul"), is used in Act 5:5, 10; 12:23.