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"Breathe" (sometimes called "Breathe (In the Air)") is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd. It appears on their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. [2]
Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath", and in a religious context for "spirit". [1] [2] It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity, particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used in Greek translations of ruach רוח in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Greek New Testament.
The word "spirit" comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning breath. Historically, breath has often been considered in terms of the concept of life force. The Hebrew Bible refers to God breathing the breath of life into clay to make Adam a living soul . It also refers to the breath as returning to God when a mortal dies.
Nathan Sivin rejected translating with the ancient Greek word pneuma ("breath; spirit, soul" or "breath of life" in Stoicism) as too narrow for the semantic range of qi: By 350 [BCE], when philosophy began to be systematic, qi meant air, breath, vapor, and other pneumatic stuff. It might be congealed or compacted in liquids or solids.
Breathe, a 2005 novel by Penni Russon; Breathe: A Ghost Story, a 2006 novel by Cliff McNish; Breathe: Stories from Cuba, a 2016 short-story collection by Leila Segal; Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, a 2020 popular science book by journalist James Nestor.
See: venturi mask air-filtering respirator An air-filtering respirator is a breathing apparatus which removes particulates from the ambient air by passing it through a filter. air-purifying respirator An air-purifying respirator is a respirator which uses a filter, cartridge, or canister to remove specific air contaminants by passing ambient air through the air-purifying component ...
Inhalation of air, as part of the cycle of breathing, is a vital process for all human life. The process is autonomic (though there are exceptions in some disease states) and does not need conscious control or effort. However, breathing can be consciously controlled or interrupted (within limits).
21. This word is used also, when Christ to make men new creatures, inspired his Apostles with the holy Ghost, Joh. 20. 21." [58] "The Lord God, saith the Text, formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his Nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living Soul. His Body made of Earth, but his Soul the Breath of God. …