'Human' in the Bible

{before any plant of the field was} on earth, and [before] {any plant of the field} had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground,

And now send [word]; bring into safety your livestock and all that [belongs] to you in the field. The hail will come down on every human and animal that is found in the field and not gathered into the house, and they will die." '"

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand to the heavens, and let there be hail in all the land of Egypt, on human and on animal and on all the vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt."

And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt all that [was] in the field, from human to animal, and the hail struck all the vegetation of the field and smashed every tree of the field.

"And I will go through the land of Egypt during this night, and I will strike all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human to animal, and I will do punishments among all of the gods of Egypt. I [am] Yahweh.

And every first offspring of a donkey you will redeem with small livestock, and if you will not redeem [it], then you will break its neck, and every firstborn human among your sons you will redeem.

And when Pharaoh was stubborn to release us, Yahweh killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from firstborn human to firstborn domestic animal. Therefore I [am] sacrificing to Yahweh every first offspring of a womb, the males, and every firstborn of my sons I redeem.'

It will not be poured on human flesh, and with its measurements you will not make [any] like it; it is holy; it will be holy to you.

But he said, "You are not able to see my face, because human will not see me and live."

Or when he touches human uncleanness, {namely} any uncleanness of his by which he might become unclean, but {he is unaware of it}, and he himself finds out, then he will be guilty.

And when a person touches anything unclean, [whether] human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean detestable thing, and he eats from the meat of the fellowship offerings' sacrifice, which [is] for Yahweh, then that person shall be cut off from his people.'"

" 'And when a man kills any human being, he certainly shall be put to death.

And a killer of a domestic animal must repay [for] it, and a killer of a human shall be put to death.

However, anything devoted that a man has devoted to Yahweh {from all that he has}, from human or animal, or from the field of his property, may not be sold, and it may not be redeemed; anything devoted [is] {a most holy thing} for Yahweh.

Anyone devoted who is devoted from {human beings} cannot be ransomed--he shall surely be put to death.

All [the] first offspring of a womb of any creature that they offer to Yahweh, whether human or animal, will be yours; you will surely redeem the firstborn of the human and the unclean firstborn of the animal.

Anyone who touches a corpse, the person of a human being who died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh, and that person will be cut off from Israel because the waters of impurity were not sprinkled on him. He will still be unclean, and uncleanness [is] on him.

And you will there serve gods {made by human hands}, [of] wood and stone, [gods] that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell.

you said, 'Look, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire; this day we have seen that God can speak with a human being, {yet he remains alive}.

But you shall not do anything to the young woman, [for] there is not [reckoned] against the young woman {a sin deserving death}; {it is similar to when} a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, {a fellow human being}, [just] so [is] this {case},

Moreover, the Glory of Israel will not break faith and will not regret, for he [is] not a human that he should regret."

I will be a father to him, and he will be a son for me, whom I will punish when he does wrong, with a rod of men and with blows of the {human beings}.

Then he proclaimed against the altar by the word of Yahweh and said, "O altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: 'Look, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall burn on you.'"

He has hurled their gods in the fire because they [are] not gods, but the work of the hands of a human [made of] wood and stone, so they destroyed them.

He also broke into pieces the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and covered their sites [with] human bones.

'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?

But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft} [like] {sparks}.

"Look, happy [is the] human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?

"What [is] a human being that you make him great and that {you fix your mind on him},

"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?

{Do you have eyes of flesh}? Or {do you see as human beings see}?

[Are] your days as the days of human beings, or your years as the days of man,

But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.

In whose hand [is] the life of all living things and {the breath of every human being}?

[Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?

"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.

"But a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus a human being passes away, and where is he?

Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away [the] soil of [the] earth; so you destroy the hope of human beings.

"Were you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth {before} [the] hills?

"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?

and it argues for a mortal with God, and [as] {a human} for his friend.

"Did you know this from of old, since the setting of [the] human being on earth,

This [is] a wicked human being's portion from God and the inheritance of his decree from God."

[As for] me, [is] my complaint for human beings? And if [so], why cannot I be impatient?

"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

{How much less} for a human being [who is] a maggot, and {a human} [who is] a worm?"

"This [is the] portion of [the] wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai [the] inheritance of [the] ruthless.

He breaks open a mine shaft {away from where people dwell}; [those] who are forgotten {by travelers}, they dangle, they sway [far away] from human beings.

A human being does not know its proper value, and it is not found in [the] land of the living.

And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord [is] wisdom, and to depart from evil [is] understanding.'"

{Have I concealed} my transgressions as [other] human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom

"Truly, it [is] a spirit in a human being, and the breath of Shaddai teaches them.

{Please let me not show partiality to anyone}, and let me not show flattery to human beings,

"Look, [in] this you are not right--I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.

to turn human beings aside [from their] deeds, and he keeps man from pride.

"If there is a messenger beside him, a mediator, one of a thousand, to declare to a human being his uprightness

He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.

Indeed, he will repay [according to] a human being's deeds, and according to a man's way he will let [it] happen [to] him.

so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare [the] people.

All human beings have looked on it; everyone watches from afar.

which [the] clouds pour down; they shower abundantly on human beings.

{he stops all human beings from working} {so that everyone whom he has made may know it}.

what [is] a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him?

O Yahweh, put them in fear. Let [the] nations know they [are merely] human. Selah

Their idols [are] silver and gold, [the] work of human hands.

For before the eyes of Yahweh [are] {human ways}, and all his paths he examines.

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

Therefore all hands will grow slack, and every human heart will melt,

And the Egyptians [are] human and not God, and their horses [are] flesh and not spirit. And Yahweh stretches out his hand, and [the] helper will stumble, and [the] one being helped will fall, and together all of them will come to an end.

And Assyria shall fall by a sword not [of] a man, and a sword not [of] a human shall devour him; and he shall flee from [the] sword, and his young men shall be [put] to forced labor.

to {set} their gods in the fire, for they [were] not gods, but [the] work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them.

Look! all his companions shall be ashamed, and [the] artisans [are] human! Let all of them assemble; let them stand up. They shall tremble; they shall be ashamed together.

[The] {woodworker} stretches out a line; he makes an outline [of] it with marker. He makes it with knife and makes an outline [of] it with compass. He makes it like [the] image of a man, like [the] beauty of a human, to dwell [in] a temple.

And it {becomes fuel for a human}, and he takes some of it and grows warm; also, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also, he makes a god and bows in worship; he makes himself an image and bows down to it!

Just as many were appalled at you-- such [was] his appearance beyond human disfigurement, and his form beyond the sons of mankind--

And they did not say, 'Where [is] Yahweh, the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt, the one who led us in the desert, in a land of desert plains and gorges, in a land of dryness and deep darkness, in a land {that no one passes through}, and no human lives there?'

Speak, 'thus {declares} Yahweh: "The dead body of the human will fall like dung upon the surface of the field, and like cut grain behind the reaper, and there is no [one who] gathers." '"

I know, Yahweh, that to the human [is] not his [own] way, nor to a person [is the] walking and the directing of his [own] step.

Can a human make for himself gods? Yet they [are] not gods!"

And from its midst [was] the likeness of four living creatures, and this [was] their appearance: {a human form},

And under their wings [were] {human hands} on their four sides. And their faces and their wings for the four of them [were as follows]:

The likeness of their faces [was the] face of a human [in front], and [the] face of a lion on the right {of each of them}, and the face of an ox on the left {of each of them}, and [the] face of an eagle {for each of them}.

And from above the expanse that [was] above their heads [there was] the likeness of a throne, {looking like a sapphire}, and above the likeness of the throne [was] a likeness similar to [the] appearance of a human on it, [but] {above it}.

And [as a] bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and {with human excrement} you shall bake it before their eyes."

And he said to me, "See I will give you {cattle manure} in the place of the feces of a human, and you may prepare your food on it."

And [there] appeared for the cherubim [the] form of {a human hand} under their wings.

And {each one had four faces}; the face of the one [was] the face of a cherub, and the face of the second [was the] face of a human, and the face of the third [was the] face of a lion, and the fourth [was the] face of an eagle.

{Each one had four faces}, and [there were] four wings for each, and [the] likeness of {human hands} [was] under their wings.

"Son of man, when a land sins against me by {acting very unfaithfully}, then I will stretch out my hand against it, and I will break for it [the] {supply of food}, and I will send against it famine, and I will cut it off, [both] human and animal.

Or, if I bring a sword over that land, and I say, 'Sword, let it cross over into the land!' And I will cut off from it [both] human and animal.

And if I [were to] send a plague to that land, and I pour out my rage on it with blood to cut it off, [both] human and animal,

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "How much more when I send my four punishments--the evil sword, and famine, and fierce animal, and a plague--to Jerusalem to cut it off, [both] human and animal!

therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "so I will stretch out my hand against Edom and I will cut off from it [both] human and animal, and I will make it a ruin from Teman and Dedan; they will fall by the sword.

"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because your heart was haughty, and you said, 'I [am] a god; I sit [in the] seat of [the] gods, I sit in [the] heart of [the] seas!' But you are a human, not a god, and you gave your heart to be like [the] heart of a god.

{Will you indeed still say} "I [am] a god!" before the face of your killers? And [in fact] you [are] a human and not a god in the hand of {those who pierce you}.

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I [am] bringing on you sword, and I will cut off from you human and animal.

A foot of a human will not pass over it, and a foot of an animal will not pass over it, and so it will not be inhabited [for] forty years.

And [the] face of a human {was toward} the palm tree image {on the one side}, and [the] face of a fierce strong lion {faced} the palm tree image {on the other side}; {this work was executed} for the entire temple {all the way around}.

and [also] {human beings wherever they dwell}, the animals of the field and the birds of heaven--he has given into your hand and made you ruler over all of them--you are the head of gold.