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 you that the LORD he is God: it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.

But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

And breathed

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.

And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive you the Holy Spirit:

Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;

Nostrils

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

Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

Turn away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for of what account is he?

A living

And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?

Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inner depths of the heart.

The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel, says the LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

General references

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.