Mark 16:37

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I was listening to and reading the last couple of chapters of the Gospel of Mark (KJB) when I noticed something I became curious about:

How come the KJB and DR bibles render the word ghost with a lower case “g” in verses 37 and 39? I always assumed that when it says ‘Jesus gave up the ghost’, it meant He gave up the Holy Spirit:

36And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
**37And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. **
38And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
**39And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God. **

But in this context I don’t think Im right, what do you think?
 
“Ghost” is a bit of an archaic rendering. “Giving up his spirit” would be how to translate it today, which essentially means he died.
 
Okay. I thought I heard from somewhere that here Jesus was implying that he has given the Holy Spirit to the Church; that the time for the gifts of the Spirit were at hand.
 
It basically means His “dying breath”, His Precious Body was officially dead.
 
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