Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Note Or a living soul; cited in 1 Corinthians 15:45
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.
Note of the dust…: Heb. dust of the ground
The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- formed man
- Psalm 100:3; Psalm 139:14, 15; Isaiah 64:8
- of the dust
- Heb. the dust of, etc. dust.
- Genesis 3:19, 23; Job 4:19; Job 33:6; Psalm 103:14; Ecclesiastes 3:7, 20; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 64:8; Romans 9:20; 1 Corinthians 15:47; 2 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Corinthians 5:1
- and breathed
- Job 27:3; Job 33:4; John 20:22; Acts 17:25
- nostrils
- Genesis 7:22; Ecclesiastes 3:21; Isaiah 2:22
- a living
- Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16; Proverbs 20:27; Zechariah 12:1; 1 Corinthians 15:45; Hebrews 12:9