45 Bible Verses about breath

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Ice is formed by the breath of God,
and watery expanses are frozen.

His breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames pour out of his mouth.

as long as my breath is still in me
and the breath from God remains in my nostrils,

The life of every living thing is in His hand,
as well as the breath of all mankind.

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

Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.

But after 3½ days, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet. So great fear fell on those who saw them.

“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

The heavens were made by the word of the Lord,
and all the stars, by the breath of His mouth.

When his breath leaves him,
he returns to the ground;
on that day his plans die.

I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing to my God as long as I live.

Remember that my life is but a breath.
My eye will never again see anything good.

All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

But it is a spirit in man
and the breath of the Almighty
that give him understanding.

This is what God, Yahweh, says—
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
who gives breath to the people on it
and life to those who walk on it—

For the fate of people and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

When You send Your breath,
they are created,
and You renew the face of the earth.

If He put His mind to it
and withdrew the spirit and breath He gave,

Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

I will put tendons on you, make flesh grow on you, and cover you with skin. I will put breath in you so that you come to life. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

The Lord’s lamp sheds light on a person’s life,
searching the innermost parts.

How can someone like me, your servant, speak with someone like you, my lord? Now I have no strength, and there is no breath in me.”

Two of all flesh that has the breath of life in it entered the ark with Noah.

He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man. Say to it: This is what the Lord God says: Breath, come from the four winds and breathe into these slain so that they may live!”

This is what the Lord God says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.

Let everything that breathes praise the Lord.
Hallelujah!

and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of His mouth and will bring him to nothing with the brightness of His coming.

Because He has turned His ear to me,
I will call out to Him as long as I live.

Who knows if the spirit of people rises upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

He was permitted to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

They perish at a single blast from God
and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.

My spirit is broken.
My days are extinguished.
A graveyard awaits me.

Woe to him who says to wood: Wake up!
or to mute stone: Come alive!
Can it teach?
Look! It may be plated with gold and silver,
yet there is no breath in it at all.

For I will not accuse you forever,
and I will not always be angry;
for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,
even the breath of man, which I have made.

Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,
and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.