Genesis 2:7

And Hashem Elohim formed the adam of the aphar min haadamah, and breathed into his nostrils the nishmat chayyim; and the adam became a nefesh chayyah.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6But there went up a mist from ha'aretz, and watered the whole face of the adamah.

8And Hashem Elohim planted a gan (garden) eastward in Eden; and there He put the adam whom He had formed.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat lechem, 1 till thou return unto haadamah; 1 for out of it wast thou taken; 1 for aphar thou art, 1 and unto aphar shalt thou return.

Genesis 7:22All in whose nostrils was the ruach chayyim, of all that was in the dry land, perished.

Numbers 27:16Let Hashem Elohei HaRuchot L'khol Basar appoint an Ish over HaEdah,

Job 27:3All the while my neshamah is in me, 1 and the ruach of Eloah is in my nostrils, 1

Job 33:6See, I am like thee, of El, 1 from chomer (clay) was I taken also. 1

Psalms 103:14For He has da'as of yitzreinu (our nature); 1 He remembereth that aphar anachnu (dust we are). 1

Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:5-8

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And 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. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the… Read the whole commentary →

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