Pneuma, Ruach and The Gender of The Holy Spirit

Of course the “Godhead”, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit have existed through out the Old Testament and the New Testament and through out all eternity.

The Father and The Son are identified as being a masculine gender. What gender the Holy Spirit is more challenging.

The greek word “Pneuma” is translated as Spirit”, “wind” and “breath” and has grammatical gender. It is “neuter”. Except for in John 14 where the Holy Spirit is referred to in the masculine form as "The Comforter” and because of that defenders of the Godhead concept refer to the Holy Spirit as being of the masculine gender. But everywhere else in the New Testament its (he’s) “neuter”

Jesus consistently speaks of the Spirit as a personal agent—the Spirit teaches, reminds, testifies, guides, hears, speaks, and glorifies Christ (John 14:26; 15:26; 16:13–14)

Let’s look at the Old Testament. The Hebrew word translated “Spirit”, “wind” and “breath” is usually grammatically feminine. Hmmm.

Does the Bible identify the Holy Spirit as male or female?

Well the Holy scriptures do not explicitly tell us. What it does tell us is that the Holy Spirit is represented three ways grammatically: Feminine, Neuter and Masculine.

I don’t really have an answer or explanation for all this. But as good Bible students we need to know things. Sometimes when we’ve had time to think we’ll find an answer. Although I suspect in Heaven there will not be any genders, but that’s just a guess.