Named Spirit

Deliverance teaching names this spirit for the Levite who told Moses the whole congregation was holy, so why did he exalt himself — and was swallowed by the ground.

The most discussed figure in modern deliverance teaching, and a category rather than a being — built from a queen in Kings and a rival teacher in Revelation.

Named in deliverance teaching for the son who stood at the gate, listened sympathetically to everyone with a grievance, and stole the hearts of Israel.

The passive half of the pair — named for the king who let his queen act and then took the vineyard she obtained for him.

The biblical term for a medium's attending spirit — and at Endor, the one occasion where the practice is depicted as working.

Job's sea-beast read as a spirit of pride, and specifically of the twisting of words between people who are trying to understand each other.

A spirit that volunteers to deceive, is asked how, explains, and is authorised — by God, in open council.

A goddess the people of Judah tell Jeremiah, to his face, that they will keep worshipping — because things went better when they did.

The only spirit in the gospels that answers when asked its name — and answers with a military unit.

A single phrase in Ephesians that supplies the whole idea of spirits holding territory in the air above a place.

The one figure in this tradition whose name is genuinely in the Greek text — and invisible in English, where the KJV renders it 'a spirit of divination'.

A woman bent double for eighteen years, described by Luke as having a spirit of infirmity and by Jesus as bound by Satan.

Defined in the epistle by one specific test — denying that Christ came in the flesh — and stretched considerably since by deliverance teaching.

A deliverance category with no proof text at all — assembled from the gospel confrontations and directed, pointedly, at religious people rather than at outsiders.