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Abstract. The author considers the approaches to the interpretation of the notion spiritual verse developed in performers' environment and scientific use and reveals the reasons of the absence of clear boundaries of this definition. With the purpose of terminological concretization the author singles out four archetypical models of a spiritual verse on which basis there was the development of the system of non-liturgical spiritual singing.

Key words and phrases: лексема "духовный стих", терминологические обозначения внебогослужебного духовного пения, фольклорные эпические и лирические стихи, покаянные стихи, псальмы, "spiritual verse" lexeme, terminological designations of non-liturgical spiritual singing, folklore, epic and lyric verses, penitential verses, chants