And the LORD God formed man (e) [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
(e) He shows what man's body was created from, to the intent that man should not glory in the excellency of his own nature.
Verse Genesis 2:7. _GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST_] In the most distinct manner God shows us that man is a _compound_ being, having a body and soul distinctly, and separately created; the body out of th...
- Part II. The development - Section II - The Man - X. The Field 4. תולדות _tôl__e__dôt_ “generations, products, developments.” That which comes from any source, as the child from the parent, the...
II. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH Man in Innocency before the Fall Genesis 2:4-45 _ 1. The earth his abode (Genesis 2:4)_ 2. The creation of man (Genesis 2:7) 3. The garden of Eden...
J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
The narrative begins with the words In the day, but the construction is uncertain. Perhaps Genesis 2:5 f. is a parenthesis, so that man was formed at the period when earth and heaven (J's phrase for P...
J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
FORMED. As. potter. Isaiah 64:8. MAN. Hebrew. _'eth- 'Ha'adham_ (with art. and particle. "this same man Adam". See App-14). BREATH. Hebrew. _neshamah._ See App-16. of. Genitive of Apposition (App-17...
The Creation of Man 4. _in the day that_ There is no allusion here to the Days of Creation. It is simply the vivid Hebrew idiom for "at the time when." _the Lord God_ The Hebrew words "Jahveh Elohim...
_formed_ A different word from that used in Genesis 1:1; Genesis 1:27, "created," or in Genesis 1:26, "made." The metaphor is that of the potter shaping and moulding the clay, LXX ἔπλασεν, Lat. _forma...
FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE EARTH— Having given us a general account of the formation of man, and of the dignity of his species, in that he was made _in the image of his Maker;_ Moses proceeds to gi...
PART EIGHT: THE BEGINNING OF HOMO SAPIENS Genesis 2:4-7 1. _Diagrammatic Review_ of Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3 Day Day 1. Energy, Matter-in Motion, Light CREATION 4. Chronol
_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._ The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground. The Hebrew...
PARADISE AND THE FALL In this famous passage we possess a wealth of moral and spiritual teaching regarding God and man. The intention of the writer is evidently to give an answer to the question: How...
MAN] Heb. _adam_ as in Genesis 1. AV renders the word as a proper name frequently in Genesis 2-4; RV gives 'man' throughout except Genesis 3:17; Genesis 4:25. GROUND] Heb. _adamah._ A connexion is thu...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 2 GOD RESTS V1 So the sky and the earth were complete. Everything that was in them was complete. V2 On the seventh day, God had finished his work...
‘God made a man out of dust.’ So he made man’s body out of things that he had already made. ‘He blew the breath of life into him.’ This means that he made man alive. If an animal has breath, it is ali...
AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND. — Literally, _formed the man_ (adam) _dust from the ground._ In this section the prominent idea is not that of producing out of nothing, but of _...
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE. The _Bereshit Rabba_ argues that Adam and Eve remained in their original state of innocence for six hours only. Others have supposed...
וַ יִּיצֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת ־הָֽ אָדָ֗ם
THE CREATION Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1 IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding the order in which plan...
MAN IN EDEN, INNOCENCE Genesis 2:1 The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from the use of the same term for God- _Elohim._ God's Rest was not from weariness, or exhaustion,...
This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account. First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed" su...
MAN IS DIFFERENT Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
_Breath of life or a soul, created out of nothing, and infused into the body to give it life. (Haydock)_...
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. The tree of life, (Genesis 2:9) perhaps an emblem, or token...
_THE GARDEN OF EDEN_ ‘And the Lord God formed man of the dust … and the Lord God planted a garden.’ Genesis 2:7 We generally speak of our parents, Adam and Eve, when they ate the forbidden fruit, a...
7._And the Lord God formed man _He now explains what he had before omitted in the creation of man, that his body was taken out of the earth. He had said that he was formed after the image of God. This...
In chapter 2 we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion as such. Hence the LORD [1] God is introduced: not merely God as a creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. Hen...
AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND,.... Not of dry dust, but, as Josephus h says, of red earth macerated, or mixed with water; the like notion Hesiod i has; or out of clay, as in Jo...
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. Ver. 7. _Formed man of the dust._] Not of the rocks of the ea...
_The Lord God formed man_ Man being the chief of God's works in this lower world, and being intended to be the lord of all other creatures, we have here a more full account of his creation. The word י...
1 The first Sabbath. 4 The maner of the creation. 8 The planting of the garden of Eden, 10 and the riuer thereof. 17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19-20 The naming of the creatures. 21 T...
The creation of Adam...
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. This is one distinction of man: Instead of merely being called i...
SECOND SECTION _Man—Paradise—the Paradisaical Pair and the Paradisaical Institutions,—Theocratic—Jehovistic._ GENESIS 2:4-25. A. The Earth waiting for Man. 4These are the generations [genealogies]...
THE SEVENTH DAY The first three verses here are directly connected with chapter 1. "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished." The work of the first creation occupied s...
OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND: _ Heb._ dust of the ground...
4-7 Here is a name given to the Creator, "Jehovah." Where the word "LORD" is printed in capital letters in our English Bibles, in the original it is "Jehovah." Jehovah is that name of God, which deno...
INTO HIS NOSTRILS, and by that door into the head and whole man. This is an emphatical phrase, sufficiently implying that the soul of man was of a quite differing nature and higher extraction and orig...
The chapter introduces to our notice two prominent subjects, namely, "the seventh day" and "the river." The first of these demands special attention. There are few subjects on which so much misunderst...
Genesis 2:7 LORD H3068 God H430 formed H3335 (H8799) man H120 dust H6083 of H4480 ground H127 breathed...
‘And 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 being.' The word for ‘formed' is, among other uses, used of the pott...
MAN'S ESTABLISHMENT AND FALL (GENESIS 2:4 TO GENESIS 3:24) TABLET II. Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God is called Yahweh Elohim (Lor
THE TREE-COVERED PLAIN IN EDEN (GENESIS 2:4). ‘In the day that the Lord God made earth and heavens, when no plant (siach) of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb (‘eseb) of the field had yet sp...
Genesis 2:7 I. We see from this text that it was the will of God that there should be between man and the other creatures He had formed an enormous gulf; that men were intended to be raised above the...
Genesis 2:1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work whi...
CONTENTS: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Genesis 1:27 explained. The Edenic covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Adam, Eve. CONCLUSION: Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. The real man i...
Genesis 2:1. By _host_ is meant, not the angels, as some have thought, but the starry heavens. Psalms 33:6. Genesis 2:2. _On the seventh day God ended his work._ The Samaritan Pentateuch reads, the si...
_And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground_ THE HUMILITY AND DIGNITY OF MAN “The Lord God formed man,” etc. I. THEN MAN OUGHT NOT TO INDULGE A SPIRIT OF PRIDE. II. THEN MAN OUGHT NOT T...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:7 THEN THE LORD GOD FORMED THE MAN OF DUST FROM THE GROUND. The verb “formed” describes a potter fashioning clay into a particular shape. The close relationship between the m...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:4 Earth’s First People. Centered initially on the garden of Eden, the episodes in this part of Genesis 1:1 recount how God’s ordered creation is thrown
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 2:4. Generations] Heb. “births” = “birth-facts,” “birth-stages” = “genesis:” Sept., “This is the book of the genesis,” &c. LORD GOD] Heb. Jehovah Elohim. The correct pronuncia...
§ 2. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH (Genesis 2:4-1). EXPOSITION THE subject handled in the present section is the primeval history of man in his paradisiacal state of innocence, his...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had mad...
formed man. Psalms 100:3 Psalms 139:14 Psalms 139:15 Isaiah 64:8 of the dust. Heb. the dust of, etc. dust....
THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING AGAIN Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the Bible, and in its opening Chapter s we have the...