Disembodied+spirit
131ghost — A disembodied spirit, supposedly residing in sheol (Job 26:5; Isa. 14:9) and capable of being brought up by a professional medium (1 Sam. 28:12–14). The disciples mistake Jesus walking on the sea for a ghost (Mark 6:49) as they also do when they… …
132ghost — [OE] In Old English times, ghost was simply a synonym for ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’ (a sense preserved in Holy Ghost); it did not acquire its modern connotations of the ‘disembodied spirit of a dead person appearing among the living’ until the 14th… …
