BREATH, WIND, SPIRIT — one Greek word for all three, exactly as Hebrew ruach is. John 3:8 builds a sentence on the fact and uses the cognate verb with it (to pneuma... pnei, 'the pneuma blows'): the first half is plainly weather — it blows, you hear its sound, you cannot track it — and the second half is plainly the Spirit, because you are BORN of it. No translation keeps both; this one prints 'wind' and then 'Spirit' and flags the seam rather than hiding it. ⚠ One chapter later the same noun raises a different question: John 4:24's pneuma ho theos is an anarthrous predicate standing before its subject — the identical construction as John 1:1 — so 'God is spirit' (qualitative) is what consistency with the prologue requires, rather than 'a spirit'. → first discussed at John 3:8