πνευματικός
spiritual
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 12 distinct
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 4 times (15%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 4 times (15%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 4 times (15%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 3 times (12%)
- Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine 2 times (8%)
- Adjective, Dative, Plural, Neuter 2 times (8%)
- Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (8%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (4%)
+4 more forms (4 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 26 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4152 appears — 21 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Romans 3 verses
- Romans 1:11 πνευματικὸν adj acc sg neut For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
- Romans 7:14 πνευματικός adj nom sg masc For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
- Romans 15:27 πνευματικοῖς adj dat pl neut Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
1 Corinthians 11 verses
- 1 Corinthians 2:13 πνευματικοῖς πνευματικὰ adj dat pl neut adj acc pl neut Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
- 1 Corinthians 2:15 πνευματικὸς adj nom sg masc But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
- 1 Corinthians 3:1 πνευματικοῖς adj dat pl masc Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 9:11 πνευματικὰ adj acc pl neut If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
- 1 Corinthians 10:3 πνευματικὸν adj acc sg neut and all ate the same spiritual food;
- 1 Corinthians 10:4 πνευματικὸν πνευματικῆς adj acc sg neut adj gen sg fem and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 12:1 πνευματικῶν adj gen pl neut Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.
- 1 Corinthians 14:1 πνευματικά adj acc pl neut Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
- 1 Corinthians 14:37 πνευματικός adj nom sg masc If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 15:44 πνευματικόν πνευματικόν adj nom sg neut adj nom sg neut It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
- 1 Corinthians 15:46 πνευματικὸν πνευματικόν adj nom sg neut adj nom sg neut However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
Galatians 1 verse
Ephesians 3 verses
- Ephesians 1:3 πνευματικῇ adj dat sg fem Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
- Ephesians 5:19 πνευματικαῖς adj dat pl fem speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises in your heart to the Lord;
- Ephesians 6:12 πνευματικὰ adj acc pl neut For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Colossians 2 verses
- Colossians 1:9 πνευματικῇ adj dat sg fem For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
- Colossians 3:16 πνευματικαῖς adj dat pl fem Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
1 Peter 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“spiritual” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective πνευματικος (pneumatikós). It clusters heavily in 1 Corinthians, which alone accounts for 52% of its uses. It turns up in 21 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Romans 1:11, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 4 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 21-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4152 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 21
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #513
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 513 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 11 verses 52%
- Romans 3 verses 14%
- Ephesians 3 verses 14%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 21 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 20 verses · 95%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Spiritual 19×, Spiritual things 3×, Is spiritual 2×
- American Standard Version: Spiritual 19×, Is spiritual 2×, Spiritual things 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Spiritual 23×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Spiritual 17×, Spiritual things 3×, Spiritual gifts 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4152 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4152 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4152 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4152 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 4 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- relating to the human spirit…
- belonging to a spirit, or a being higher than man but inferior to God
- belonging to the Divine Spirit
- pertaining to the wind or breath; windy, exposed to the wind, blowing
Word origin
Derived from πνευμα (pneûma) (G4151) — spirit.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms G4152 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4152, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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