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 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 in an awesome way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful and I know this very well.

But now, Jehovah, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands.

And breathed

As long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

The Spirit of God has made me. The Breath of the Almighty gives me life.

After he said this he breathed on them and said: Receive Holy Spirit.

Men's hands do not serve him as if he needed anything. He gives life and breath to all.

Nostrils

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Who knows the breath of man that goes upward, and the breath of the animal that goes downward to the earth?

Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?

A living

Immediately, they bowed with their faces touching the ground and said: O God, you are the God who gives the breath of life to everyone! If one man sins, will you be angry with the entire congregation?

O Jehovah our God, source of all life, appoint, I pray, a man who can lead the people

The breath of man is the candle of Jehovah, searching all the inward parts of him.

The prophetic utterance of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Jehovah declared: Who stretches forth the heavens? Who lays the foundation of the earth? Who forms the spirit of man within him?

Thus it is written: The first man Adam was made a living being. The last Adam became a life giving spirit!

Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh that corrected us, and we gave them respect. Shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

General references

The Spirit of God has made me. 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 air?

Adam was first formed and then Eve.