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; he made us and we are his. [We are] his people and the sheep of his pasture.

I praise you, because I am fearfully [and] wonderfully [made]. Wonderful [are] your works, and my soul knows [it] well.

Yet now Yahweh, you [are] our father; we [are] the clay and you [are] our {potter}, and we all [are] the work of your hand.

And breathed

For {as long as} my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nose,

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

And [when he] had said this, he breathed on [them] and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

nor is he served by human hands [as if he] needed anything, [because] he himself gives to everyone life and breath and everything.

Nostrils

Everything in whose nostrils [was] {the breath of life}, among all that [was] on dry land, died.

For no one knows [whether] the spirit of a human ascends [to heaven] and [whether] the spirit of the beast descends to the ground!

Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?

A living

And they fell on their faces, and they said, "God, God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and you become angry toward the entire community?"

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

The lamp of Yahweh [is] the spirit of humankind, he who searches every {innermost part}.

An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. "{Thus declares} Yahweh, who stretches out [the] heavens, founds [the] earth, and forms the spirit of humankind in its midst:

Thus also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul"; the last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.

Furthermore, we have had {our earthly fathers} who disciplined [us], and we respected [them]. Will we not much rather subject ourselves to the Father of spirits and live?

General references

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

[who] teaches us more than [the] animals of [the] earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

For Adam was formed first, then Eve,