Genesis 2:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- 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 th...
Genesis 2:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 in...
Genesis 2:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 stor...
Genesis 2:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 Appositio...
Genesis 2:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 2:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. God formed man of the dust - In the most distinct manner God...
Genesis 2:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Genesis 2:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Genesis 2:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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:...
Genesis 2:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 supp...
Genesis 2:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE CREATION Genesis 1:1-31 ; Genesis 2:1-25 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...
Genesis 2:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Man in Eden, Innocence Genesis 2:1-17 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 exh...
Genesis 2:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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" s...
Genesis 2:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 to...
Genesis 2:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE GARDEN OF EDEN ‘And the Lord God formed man of the dust … and the Lord God planted a garden.’ Genesis 2:7-8 We generally speak of our parents, Adam and Eve, when they ate the forbidden f...
Genesis 2:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Genesis 2:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Genesis 2:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Genesis 2:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 occupie...
Genesis 2:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Creation. B. C. 4004. 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the eart...
Genesis 2:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 o...
Genesis 2:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 (Lord God), a usage rep...
Genesis 2:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 corre...
Genesis 2:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
Genesis 2:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 2:1-8 . 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 wo...
Genesis 2:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Genesis 2:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 OUGH...
Genesis 2:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

§ 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 st...
Genesis 2:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The creation of Adam
Genesis 2:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

formed man. Psalms 100:3 Psalms 139:14 Psalms 139:15 Isaiah 64:8 of the dust. Heb. the dust of, etc. dust. Genesis 3:19 Genesis 3:23 Job 4:19 Job 33:6 Psalms 103:14 Ecclesiastes 3:...
Genesis 2:7 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Beginning and the Beginning Again Genesis 1:26-31 ; Genesis 2:1-10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the Bible, and in its opening Chapter...

Genesis 2:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 2:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 2:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 2:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 2:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 2:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 2:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 2:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 2:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 2:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 2:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 2:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 2:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 2:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 2:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 2:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 2:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 2:7 - Wells of Living Water Commentary