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

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

And breathed

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

The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth 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 knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

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 wilt thou be wroth 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 candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth 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 quickening spirit.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which 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 hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.