What does ᾠδή · πνευματικός mean in the Bible?
ᾠδή · πνευματικός is a Greek phrase meaning "songs from or pertaining to the Spirit".
Greek · G5603, G4152
ᾠδαῖς πνευματικαῖς
Song · spiritual
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ᾠδή G5603 song
Pronunciation ōidḗ
Song of praise directed toward God or Christ, never secular or merely artistic expression in NT use.
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πνευματικός G4152 spiritual
Pronunciation pneumatikós
Spiritual realities actuated by Divine Spirit, contrasting with fleshly or soulish dimensions of human existence.
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What does ᾠδαῖς πνευματικαῖς (ōdais pneumatikais) mean in the Bible?
ᾠδή · πνευματικός is a Greek phrase meaning "songs from or pertaining to the Spirit".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for G5603, G4152?
G5603, G4152 is connected to 7 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Greek phrase. songs from or pertaining to the Spirit
Source Gloss
songs from or pertaining to the Spirit
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 7 Case pattern Accusative (5) Number pattern Singular (5)
Dative · Plural · Feminine Eph 5:19 · Col 3:16 2×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Rev 5:9 · Rev 14:3 · Rev 15:3 5×
Word Origins
ᾠδαῖς πνευματικαῖς is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain