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 Jehovah, He is God. He 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; Your works are marvelous and my soul knows it very well.

But now, O Jehovah, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our Former; and we all are the work of Your hand.

And breathed

As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

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

And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

nor is served with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives life and breath and all things to all.

Nostrils

all who breathed 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?

Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostril; for in what is he to be esteemed?

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

The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

The burden of the Word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, 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, became a living soul," the last Adam was 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 to the Father of spirits and live?

General references

The Spirit of God 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 heavens?

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.