Genesis 2:7
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
יָצַר
yâtsar
to mould into a form; especially as apotter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution)
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
עָפָר
ʻâphâr
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
נָפַח
nâphach
to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem)
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
רוּחַ
rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the ...
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
הָוָא
hâvâʼ
to exist; used in a great variety of applications (especially in connection with other words)
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
Key Terms in This Verse
נָפַח nâphach
to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem)
Study H5301 →אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →יָצַר yâtsar
to mould into a form; especially as apotter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution)
Study H3335 →רוּחַ rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational...
Study H7307 →הָוָא hâvâʼ
to exist; used in a great variety of applications (especially in connection with other words)
Study H1934 →חַי chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
Study H2416 →חַי chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
Study H2416 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →Cross References
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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