Is the holy sprit mentioned in the old testament?

Answer 1

Yes, when looked for from a Christian point of view.

My favorite place is when the Holy Spirit is described as the female Wisdom in the books of Proverbs and Wisdom.

Wisdom cries aloud in the street,
in the open squares she raises her voice;
Down the crowded ways she calls out,
at the city gates she utters her words:
"How long, you simple ones, will you love inanity,
how long will you turn away at my reproof?
Lo! I will pour out to you my spirit,
I will acquaint you with my words."
(Proverbs 1:20-23) http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/wisdom/wisdom1.htm#20

For the holy spirit of discipline flees deceit
and withdraws from senseless counsels;
and when injustice occurs it is rebuked.
For wisdom is a kindly spirit,
yet she acquits not the blasphemer of his guilty lips;
Because God is the witness of his inmost self
and the sure observer of his heart
and the listener to his tongue.
For the spirit of the LORD fills the world,
is all-embracing, and knows what man says.
(Wisdom 1:5-7) http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/wisdom/wisdom1.htm#5

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

No, absolutely not.

But that won't stop ardent and skillful Catholic apologists from claiming otherwise.

They might claim passages such as (Proverbs 1:20-23) or(Wisdom 1:5-7) imply the existence of the Holy Spirit, especially since these texts have been re-written since their original Jewish context.

I would be careful believing any catholic apologists that claim the Jews believed in the Holy Spirit before the advent of Pauline Christianity.

Answer 3

Gen 1:1-2
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Answer 4

The Holy Spirit that everyone refers to is in fact the Angel GABRIEL, he is the Holy Spirit/Ghost, but is not God!

The Holy Quran
5:73] Pagans indeed are those who say that GOD is a third of a trinity. There is no god except the one god. Unless they refrain from saying this, those who disbelieve among them will incur a painful retribution.

Answer 5

Yes, in Genesis as one other person answered. Also there were several times that the Spirit fell on individuals at certain times. They weren't as fortunate as we are to be blessed with Him everyday.

http://www.becomingcloser.org/Spirit/old_testament.htm

Answer 6

It is mentioned in the Old Testament but is not quite exactly the same. It is more of an emotional state than a manifestation of G-d.

Answer 7

Genesis 1 you've seen in another answer.

Another time I can remember from the Bible is Passover, when the Spirit went through the city as a cloud or vapor.

Answer 8

The future Messiahs was mentioned. The holy spirit probably wasn't mentioned, the same as they did not aknowledge woman and children as being human. They are invisible in the old testament.

Answer 9

the HOLY SPIRIT is mentioned lots of places.

Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Gen 41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?

Exd 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

Exd 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

Spirit 7307 ruwach roo'-akh
from 'ruwach' (7306); wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions):--air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).

7306 ruwach roo'-akh
a primitive root; properly, to blow, i.e. breathe; only (literally) to smell or (by implication, perceive (figuratively, to anticipate, enjoy):--accept, smell, X touch, make of quick understanding.

Answer 10

Absolutely:
(Genesis 1:2) “2 Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon the surface of [the] watery deep; and God’s active force was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters.”
***FOOTNOTE
“And . . . active force (spirit).” Heb., weru′ach. Besides being translated “spirit,” ru′ach is also translated “wind” and by other words that denote an invisible active force. See 3:8 ftn, “Breezy part”; 8:1 ftn.

(Judges 16:28) “28 Samson now called to Jehovah and said: “Sovereign Lord Jehovah, remember me, please, and strengthen me,(with "holy spirit", "dynamic energy"--my comment )please, just this once, O you the [true] God, and let me avenge myself upon the Phi·lis´tines with vengeance for one of my two eyes.. . .”

(Job 37:23) “23 As for the Almighty, we have not found him out; He is exalted in power, And justice and abundance of righteousness he will not belittle.”

(Psalm 51:11) “11 Do not throw me away from before your face; And your holy spirit O do not take away from me.”

(Psalm 104:30) “30 If you send forth your spirit, they are created; And you make the face of the ground new.”

--BESIDES THE terms "holy spirit", "active force" "spirit" THE EXPRESSION "dynamic force" & "power" are used to denote Gods' magnificent tool:

(Isaiah 48:16) “. . .And now the Sovereign Lord Jehovah himself has sent me, even his spirit. . .”

(Isaiah 40:26-31) “26 “Raise YOUR eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who is bringing forth the army of them even by number, all of whom he calls even by name. Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one [of them] is missing. .......28 Have you not come to know or have you not heard? Jehovah, the Creator of the extremities of the earth, is a God to time indefinite. He does not tire out or grow weary. There is no searching out of his understanding. 29 He is giving to the tired one power; and to the one without dynamic energy he makes full might abound. 30 Boys will both tire out and grow weary, and young men themselves will without fail stumble, 31 but those who are hoping in Jehovah will regain power. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not tire out.””

--THUS WHEN we recognize that Jehovah God & Christ Jesus used holy spirit as a tool , and do so throughout the entire Bible, we come to know that IT never was, is not , and never will be a PERSON!

*** it-2 p. 1019 Spirit ***

---God’s Active Force; Holy Spirit.
"By far the majority of occurrences of ru´ach and pneu´ma relate to God’s spirit, his active force, his holy spirit.

Not a person. Not until the fourth century C.E. did the teaching that the holy spirit was a person and part of the “Godhead” become official church dogma. Early church “fathers” did not so teach; Justin Martyr of the second century C.E. taught that the holy spirit was an ‘influence or mode of operation of the Deity’; Hippolytus likewise ascribed no personality to the holy spirit. The Scriptures themselves unite to show that God’s holy spirit is not a person but is God’s active force by which he accomplishes his purpose and executes his will.

It may first be noted that the words “in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” (KJ) found in older translations at 1 John 5:7 are actually spurious additions to the original text. A footnote in The Jerusalem Bible, a Catholic translation, says that these words are “not in any of the early Greek MSS [manuscripts], or any of the early translations, or in the best MSS of the Vulg[ate] itself.” A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, by Bruce Metzger (1975, pp. 716-718), traces in detail the history of the spurious passage. It states that the passage is first found in a treatise entitled Liber Apologeticus, of the fourth century, and that it appears in Old Latin and Vulgate manuscripts of the Scriptures, beginning in the sixth century. Modern translations as a whole, both Catholic and Protestant, do not include them in the main body of the text, because of recognizing their spurious nature.—RS, NE, NAB.