Genesis 2:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Formed man

Psalm 139:14

Isaiah 64:8

And breathed

Nostrils

Genesis 7:22

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Isaiah 2:22

A living

General references

Job 33:4

Job 35:11

1 Timothy 2:13

Bible References

Formed man

I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

And breathed

(For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.

And when he had said this, breathing on them, he said to them, Let the Holy Spirit come on you:

And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

Nostrils

Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

A living

Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,

The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.

The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

General references

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.

Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

For Adam was first formed, then Eve;