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Genesis 2

Gen. 2:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
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 deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
formed
yatsar (Hebrew #3335)
((compare 3331)); to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution)
KJV usage: X earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.
Pronounce: yaw-tsar'
Origin: probably identical with 3334 (through the squeezing into shape)
man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
δof thed dust
`aphar (Hebrew #6083)
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
KJV usage: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
Pronounce: aw-fawr'
Origin: from 6080
of
min (Hebrew #4480)
or minney (constructive plural) {min-nay'}; (Isaiah 30:11); for 4482; properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses (as follows)
KJV usage: above, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, X neither, X nor, (out) of, over, since, X then, through, X whether, with.
Pronounce: min
Origin: or minniy {min-nee'}
the ground
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
, and breathed
naphach (Hebrew #5301)
to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem)
KJV usage: blow, breath, give up, cause to lose (life), seething, snuff.
Pronounce: naw-fakh'
Origin: a primitive root
e into hisf nostrils
'aph (Hebrew #639)
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
KJV usage: anger(-gry), + before, countenance, face, + forebearing, forehead, + (long-)suffering, nose, nostril, snout, X worthy, wrath.
Pronounce: af
Origin: from 599
the breath
nshamah (Hebrew #5397)
a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal
KJV usage: blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.
Pronounce: nesh-aw-maw'
Origin: from 5395
of life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
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
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
; and man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
g became a living
chay (Hebrew #2416)
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
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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formed man.
of the dust.
Heb. the dust of, etc.
dust.
Gen. 3:19,23• 19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
23Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
(Gen. 3:19,23)
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Job 4:19• 19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth! (Job 4:19)
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Job 33:6• 6Behold, before *God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay. (Job 33:6)
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Psa. 103:14• 14For himself knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. (Psa. 103:14)
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Eccl. 3:7,20• 7A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
20All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.
(Eccl. 3:7,20)
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Eccl. 12:7• 7and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it. (Eccl. 12:7)
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Isa. 64:8• 8And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. (Isa. 64:8)
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Rom. 9:20• 20Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? (Rom. 9:20)
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1 Cor. 15:47• 47the first man out of the earth, made of dust; the second man, out of heaven. (1 Cor. 15:47)
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2 Cor. 4:7• 7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be of God, and not from us: (2 Cor. 4:7)
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2 Cor. 5:1• 1For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2 Cor. 5:1)
and breathed.
nostrils.
a living.
 A living soul, not as other creatures by creative power only, but he only by Jehovah Elohim breathing into his nostrils. (Woman)
 Man was, by his existence, in immediate relationship with God, as deriving his life immediately from Himself; hence he is called in Acts 17 the offspring of God, and in Luke it is said, “The [son] of Adam, the [son] of God.” (Genesis 2 by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.