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

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

I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well!

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

And breathed

My lips shall talk of no vanity, and my tongue shall speak no deceit,

The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the almighty hath given me my life.

And when he had said that, he breathed on them, and said unto them, "Receive the holy ghost.

neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed of any thing. Seeing he himself giveth life and breath to all men everywhere,

Nostrils

so that all that had the breath of life in the nostrils of it, throughout all that was on dry land, died.

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the breath of the beast that goeth down into the earth?

Fear not, then, any man whose breath is in his nostrils - for what is he?

A living

And they fell upon their faces, and said, "O most mighty God of the spirits of all flesh; one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?"

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

The lantern of the LORD is the breath of man; and goeth through all the inward parts of the body.

The heavy burden which the LORD hath devised for Israel. Thus sayeth the LORD, which spread the heavens abroad, laid the foundation of the earth, and giveth man the breath of life,

As it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul," and the last Adam was made a quickening spirit:

Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live?

General references

The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the almighty hath given me my life.

Which giveth us more understanding than he doth the beasts of the earth, and teacheth us more than the fouls of heaven?'

For Adam was first formed, and then Eve.