'Breath' in the Bible

Ishmael lived for 137 years, then he took his last breath, died, and joined his ancestors.

By the breath of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing waters stood up like a hill, the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.

"You blew with your breath, and the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.

The currents of the sea were revealed and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD and at the blazing breath from his nostrils!

They perish by the breath of God; they are consumed by the storm that is his anger.

Remember that my life is a breath; my eyes won't go back to seeing good things.

He won't let me catch my breath; instead, he fills me with bitterness.

But what the wicked look for will fail; their way of escape will be taken away from them; their only hope is to take their final breath."

and that the life of every living thing rests in his control, along with the breath of every living human being?

He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth.

My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!

As long as I can breathe; as long as God's breath is in my nostrils,

However, a spirit exists in mankind, and the Almighty's breath gives him insight."

"The spirit of God fashioned me; and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

If he were to decide to do so, that is, to take back to himself his spirit and breath of life,

From the breath of God ice is produced, and a wide body of water is frozen.

His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth.

Then the channels of the sea could be seen, and the foundations of the earth were uncovered because of your rebuke, LORD, because of the blast from the breath of your nostrils.

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made; all the heavenly bodies by the breath of his mouth.

When you withdraw your favor, they are disappointed; Take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

ears are attributed to them, but they do not hear, and there is no breath in their mouths.

The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.

I told myself, "I'll go up the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit. May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples.

"Stop trusting in human beings, whose life breath is in their nostrils, for what are they really worth?"

but with righteousness he will judge the needy, and decide with equity for earth's poor. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and the wicked will be killed with the breath of his lips.

His breath is like an overflowing torrent, and it rises right up to the neck, to shake the nations in the sieve of destruction, and to place in the jaws of the nations a bit that leads them astray.

For the Fire Pit has long been prepared; truly it is for the king; it will indeed be made ready. And its pyre will be deep and wide, with abundant fire and wood. Like a stream of burning sulfur, the breath of the LORD will set it ablaze.

You conceive dried grass, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

Grass withers and flowers fade away when the LORD's breath blows on them; surely the people are like grass.

Grass withers and flowers fade away, when the LORD's breath blows on them, but the word of our God will stand forever."

This is what God says the God who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its produce, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

When you cry out, let your collection deliver you! The wind will carry them all off, and a mere breath will sweep them all away." "But whoever takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.

So people will fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glories from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a pent-up stream that the breath of the LORD drives along.

The LORD's anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. About him we had said, "Under his protection we will survive among the nations."

So I prophesied as I had been ordered, breath entered them, and they began to live. They stood on their own feet as a vast, united army.

"Woe to the one who says to a tree, "Wake up!' or "Arise!' to a speechless stone. Idols like this can't teach, can they? Look, even though it is overlaid with gold and silver, there's no breath in it at all."