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 100:3

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

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

And breathed

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

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!

neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Nostrils

All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

A living

They fell on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"

"Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

The spirit of man is Yahweh's lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

General references

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.