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Genesis 2:7 KJV
Genesis · chapter 2 · verse 7
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.Genesis 2:7 · King James Version
Genesis 2:7 in context
5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7And 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.
8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Commentary
Cross references
- Job 33:4
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
- 1 Corinthians 15:45
- Isaiah 64:8
- Acts 17:25
- 1 Corinthians 15:47
- Job 27:3
- Genesis 3:19
Key words (Strong's)
- breathednâphachto puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle…H5301 →
- nostrilsʼaphproperly, the nose or nostrilH639 →
- formedyâtsarto mould into a formH3335 →
- groundʼădâmâhsoilH127 →
- breathnᵉshâmâha puffH5397 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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In these verses, I. Here is a name given to the Creator which we have not yet met with, and that is Jehovah - the LORD, in capital letters, which are constantly used in our English translation to intimate that in the original it is Jehovah. All along, in the first chapter, he was called Elohim - a God of power;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-7