Genesis 2:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּיצֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֗ם עָפָר֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה וַיִּפַּ֥ח בְּאַפָּ֖יו נִשְׁמַ֣ת חַיִּ֑ים וַֽיְהִ֥י הָֽאָדָ֖ם לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּֽה׃

Transliteration

wayyîṣer YHWH ʾĕlōhîm ʾeṯ-hāʾāḏām ʿāp̄ār min-hāʾăḏāmāh wayyippaḥ bəʾappāyw nišmaṯ ḥayyîm wayəhî hāʾāḏām lənep̄eš ḥayyāh

Grammar Details

*wayyîṣer*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd singular masculine - and he formed
*YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/LORD
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine, plural (with singular meaning) - God
*ʾeṯ-hāʾāḏām*: direct object marker + definite article + noun, masculine, singular - the man
*ʿāp̄ār*: noun, masculine, singular - dust
*min-hāʾăḏāmāh*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine, singular - from the ground
*wayyippaḥ*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd singular masculine - and he breathed
*bəʾappāyw*: preposition + noun, masculine, dual + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - into his nostrils
*nišmaṯ*: noun, feminine, singular construct - breath of
*ḥayyîm*: noun, masculine, plural - life
*wayəhî*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd singular masculine - and he became
*hāʾāḏām*: definite article + noun, masculine, singular - the man
*lənep̄eš*: preposition + noun, feminine, singular construct - to/for a being of
*ḥayyāh*: adjective, feminine, singular - living

Word Meanings

*wayyîṣer*: formed/fashioned/shaped
*hāʾāḏām*: the man/the human/Adam
*ʿāp̄ār*: dust/soil/earth/clay
*hāʾăḏāmāh*: the ground/the soil/the earth
*wayyippaḥ*: breathed/blew
*bəʾappāyw*: in his nostrils/in his nose
*nišmaṯ ḥayyîm*: breath of life/living breath
*nep̄eš ḥayyāh*: living being/living creature/living soul

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 15:45 : 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Job 33:4 : 4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Isa 64:8 : 8 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.
Ps 103:14 : 14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Gen 3:19 : 19 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.
Acts 17:25 : 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
Rom 9:20 : 20 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?
Gen 7:22 : 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Job 27:3 : 3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Gen 3:23 : 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Ps 100:3 : 3 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.
Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ps 139:14-15 : 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Job 33:6 : 6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Zech 12:1 : 1 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.
2 Cor 5:1 : 1 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.
Heb 12:9 : 9 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?
2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
John 20:22 : 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Job 4:19 : 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Num 16:22 : 22 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?
Prov 20:27 : 27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Eccl 3:7 : 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Num 27:16 : 16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

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