Different “spirits” Recorded in Scripture
OLD TESTAMENT:
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Numbers
5:14-15, 30 “...And the spirit of jealousy
(qinah
= jealousy, envy) come upon him, and he be jealous
of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy
come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not
defiled...Or when the spirit of jealousy (qinah
= jealousy, envy) cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his
wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest
shall execute upon her all this law.”
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Judges 9:23
“Then God sent an evil spirit
(ra
= evil, bad) between Abimelech and the men of
Sechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with
Abimelech:”
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I Samuel 1:15
“And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a
sorrowful spirit
(qasheh
= sorrowful, sharp, hard): I have drunk neither
wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the
Lord.”
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I
Samuel 16:14-23 “But the Spirit of the Lord departed
from Saul, and an evil spirit (ra
= evil, bad) from the Lord troubled him....”
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I Samuel
18:10 “And it came to pass on the morrow, that the
evil spirit
(ra
= evil, bad) from God came upon Saul, and he
prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his
hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's
hand...”
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I Samuel 19:9
“And the evil spirit
(ra
= evil, bad)
from the Lord was upon Saul, as he sat in his
house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his
hand...”
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I Kings
22:21-23 “There came forth
a spirit,
and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And
the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth,
and I will be a lying spirit (sheqer
= lie, falsehood) in the mouth of all his prophets.
And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go
forth, and do so. Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a
lying spirit (sheqer =
lie, falsehood) in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the
Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.”
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II Chronicles
18:20-23 “Then there came out a spirit,
and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the
Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go out, and
be a lying spirit (sheqer
= lie, falsehood) in the mouth of all his prophets. And
the Lord said, Thou shall entice him, and thou shalt also
prevail: go out, and do even so. Now therefore, behold, the Lord
hath put a lying spirit (sheqer
= lie, falsehood) in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the
Lord hath spoken evil against thee.”
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Proverbs
16:18 “Pride
goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit
(gobah
= haughty, lofty, to soar, proud, raise up great height, upward)
before a fall.”
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Proverbs
17:22 “A merry
heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken
spirit (nake
= broken,
smitten, wounded, afflicted) drieth the bones.”
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Proverbs
18:14 “The spirit
of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a
wounded spirit (nake
= wounded, broken, smitten, broken) who can bear?
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Isaiah 19:3
“And the spirit of Egypt
shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel
thereof: and they shall seek to the idols,
and to the charmers
(ittim = to charm, fascinate, secret), and to them that have
familiar spirits
(ob = to mumble, ventriloquist), and to wizards
(yiddeoni
= a knowing one, conjure, a ghost).”
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Isaiah 19:14
“The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit
(ivim
=perverse, wicked, crooked, iniquity) in the midst thereof: and
they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a
drunken man staggereth in his vomit.”
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Isaiah 54:6 “For the Lord
hath called thee as a woman forsaken and
grieved
in spirit
(atsab = to grieve, hurt, pain), and a wife of youth, when thou
wast refused, saith the Lord.”
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Isaiah 61:3
“To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
praise for the spirit of heaviness
(kehah
= heaviness, weakness, feeble); that they might be
called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He
might be glorified.”
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Isaiah 65:14
“Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall
cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation
(sheber=a
breaking, destruction of spirit.”
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Hosea 4:12
“My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their
staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms
(zenunim = fornication), adultery, play the
harlot) hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring
from under their God.”
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Hosea 5:4
“They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for
the spirit of whoredoms
(zenunim
=
fornication, adultery, play the harlot) is in the
midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.”
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Zechariah
13:2 “And it shall come to pass in that day, saith
the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols
out of the land, and they shall not more be remembered: and also
I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit
(tumah =defile, filthy, impure) to pass out
of the land.”
NEW TESTAMENT:
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Matthew
8:16 “When
the even was come, they brought unto him many that were
possessed with demons:
and he cast out the
spirits with his
word, and healed all that were sick:”
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Matthew
10:1 “And
when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave
them power against unclean spirits
(akethartos
=
unclean, impure, foul, lewd), to cast them out, and to heal
all manner of sickness and all manner of diseases.”
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Matthew
12:22-30
“Then was brought unto him one possessed
with a
demon, blind, and dumb:
and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both
spake and saw. And all the people were amazed, and said, is
not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it,
they said, This fellow doth not cast out
demons, but
by Beelzebub the prince of demons. And Jesus knew their
thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against
itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house
divided against itself shall not stand: And
if Satan cast out Satan,
he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom
stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out
demons, by
whom do your children cast them out?
Therefore they shall be your judges. But if
I cast out demons
by the Spirit of God,
then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and
spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? And
then he will spoil his house. He that is not with me is
against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth
abroad.”
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Mark
1:23-27 “And
there was in their synagogue a man with an
unclean spirit
(alatjartps = unclean, impure, foul, lewd);
and he cried out, saying, Let us alone; what have we to do
with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy
us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus
rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
And when the unclean spirit
had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of
him. And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned
among themselves, saying, What thing is this? What new
doctrine is this? For with authority commadeth he even the
unclean spirits
(akathartos
=
unclean, impure, foul, lewd), and they do obey him.”
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Mark 5:8
“For he(Jesus)said unto him, Come out of the man, thou
unclean spirit
(akathartos
=
unclean, impure, foul, lewd).”
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Mark 9:25
“When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he
rebuked the foul spirit
(akathartos
= foul, unclean, impure, lewd), saying unto
him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I
charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.”
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Luke
13:11-13 “And, behold, there was a woman which
had a spirit of infirmity (astheneia
= weakness, frailty, feebleness of body or mind)
eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise
life up herself. And when Jesus saw her, He called her to
Him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine
infirmity
(estheneia
= weakness, frailty, feebleness of body or mind).
And He laid His hands on her: and immediately she was made
straight, and glorified God.”
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I Timothy
4:1 “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in
the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving
heed to seducing spirits
(apoplanao
= to
lead away, astray, deceiver, imposter), and
doctrines of demons...”
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II
Timothy 1:7 “For God hath not give us the
spirit of fear
(deilia = timidity, fearful, faithless); but
of power, and love, and of a sound mind.”
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I John
4:1-3 “Beloved, believe not every
spirit, but try(dokimazo
= test, examine, determine, to prove) the
spirits whether they are of God: because many
false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye
the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
And every spirit that confesseth not
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and
this is that spirit of antichrist,
whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now
already is it in the world..”
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I John
4:6 “We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth
us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the
spirit of truth, and the spirit of error
(plane
= wandering, straying, deceit).”
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Revelation 16:13-14 “And I saw three
unclean spirits
(akathartos
= impure, lewd, foul)like frogs come out of
the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast,
and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the
spirits of demons
(daimon = a deified spirit, devil), working
miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of
the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great
day of God Almighty.”
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Revelation 18:2-4 “And he cried mightily with a
strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is
fallen, and is become the habitation of demons, and the hold
of every foul spirit
(akathartos = unclean, impure, lewd), and a
cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have
drunk of the wine of the wrath of fornication, and the kings
of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the
merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance
of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not partakers of her
sins, and that ye receive not her
plagues.”
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