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 the Lord

Himself is God;

It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Wonderful are Your works,

And my soul knows it very well.

But now, O Lord, You are our Father,
We are the clay, and You our potter;
And all of us are the work of Your hand.

And breathed

For as long as life is in me,
And the

breath of God is in my nostrils,

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

And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

Nostrils

of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;

For

why should he be esteemed?

A living

But they fell on their faces and said, “O God, God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the entire congregation?”

“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

The

spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord,

Searching all the innermost parts of his being.

The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel.Thus declares the Lord who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him,

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

General references

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

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.