'Breath' in the Bible

And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground -- everything that has the breath of life in it -- I give every green plant for food." It was so.

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.

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

With her dying breath, she named him Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.

When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.

But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the Lord's battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.

He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, "O Lord, my God, please let this boy's breath return to him."

The Lord answered Elijah's prayer; the boy's breath returned to him and he lived.

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

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

My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.

By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

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

If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, Lord, by the powerful breath from your nose.

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life's breath, they die and return to dust.

When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

Their life's breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.

I want to climb the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit stalks. May your breasts be like the clusters of grapes, and may the fragrance of your breath be like apricots!

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life's breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

For you are a protector for the poor, a protector for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. Though the breath of tyrants is like a winter rainstorm,

For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The Lord's breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.

You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

This is what the true God, the Lord, says -- the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:

For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man's spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.

In fact, I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like that of a woman giving birth to her first baby. It is the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, reaching out for help, saying, "I am done in! My life is ebbing away before these murderers!"

All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found."

The mother who had seven children will grow faint. All the breath will go out of her. Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life. It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day. She will suffer shame and humiliation. I will cause any of them who are still left alive to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies," says the Lord.

So King Zedekiah made a secret promise to Jeremiah and sealed it with an oath. He promised, "As surely as the Lord lives who has given us life and breath, I promise you this: I will not kill you or hand you over to those men who want to kill you."

All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

(Resh) Our very life breath -- the Lord's anointed king -- was caught in their traps, of whom we thought, "Under his protection we will survive among the nations."

This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live.

I will put tendons on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'"

As I watched, I saw tendons on them, then muscles appeared, and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath in them.

He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, -- prophesy, son of man -- and say to the breath: 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.'"

So I prophesied as I was commanded, and the breath came into them; they lived and stood on their feet, an extremely great army.

I will place my breath in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the Lord -- I have spoken and I will act, declares the Lord.'"

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone -- gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

The one who says to wood, 'Wake up!' is as good as dead -- he who says to speechless stone, 'Awake!' Can it give reliable guidance? It is overlaid with gold and silver; it has no life's breath inside it.