Maya Posted November 9, 2010 Report Posted November 9, 2010 A person in a discusition claimed once that Jewish dont have a word and dont know what a spirit is? (or a ghost .. there may be a translation difficulty here.) Is that right? So it would be very difficult to explain about life before and after earth life. Quote
Maya Posted November 25, 2010 Author Report Posted November 25, 2010 I have had a long time doubts about this person, he/she claims to be jewish..... Quote
IAmTheWork Posted January 1, 2011 Report Posted January 1, 2011 An old thread, but this might be interesting to someone; My Taichi teacher years ago told me that the Chinese word 'chi' can mean different things depending upon the context in which it's used. So it may mean breath, energy, spirit, light, and such. (It's usually pronounced more like 'zhi'). The Japanese 'ki' is the same, as is Hebrew 'ruach' (perhaps a more phonetic spelling?) the Latin 'spiritus', and the Greek 'pneuma'. It's obvious to see that in translation from one language to another, the word for 'energy' might be taken to mean 'ghost', and so on. But then translations offer a huge potential for errors, and not just in what single words may mean. Quote
Jerubbaal Posted April 4, 2011 Report Posted April 4, 2011 In Genesis 25: 8, 17 The writer speaks of both Abraham, then Ishmael giving up the Ghost Whatever that word translates back to in Hebrew?? lol Then there is the one in the OT, where it says "...the spirit goes back to God, who gave it life" Quote
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