From Nave’s Topical Bible
Breath
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 12Passages listed
- 7Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
The passages, in Bible order (12)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 12 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Commentary on Genesis 2:72 voices
“Therefore the soul is not blood, because blood is of the flesh; nor is the soul a harmony, because harmony of this sort is also of the flesh; neither is the soul air, because blown breath is one thing and the soul something else. The soul is not fire, nor is the soul actuality, but the soul is living, for Adam ‘became a living soul,’ since the soul rules and gives life to the body, which is without life or feeling.”
Ambrose of Milan · On Isaac and the SoulPatristic
“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 the dust of the earth, the soul immediately breathed from God himself. Does not this strongly mark that the soul and body are not the same thing? The body derives its origin from the earth, or as עפר aphar implies, the dust; hence because it is earthly it is decomposable and perishable.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Genesis 7:22
Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Commentary on Genesis 7:221 voice
“Of all that was in the dry land - From this we may conclude that such animals only as could not live in the water were preserved in the ark.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- 2 Samuel 22:16
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
- Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
- Job 15:30
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
Commentary on Job 15:301 voice
“He shall not depart out of darkness - 4. He shall be in continual afflictions and distress. 5. The flame shall dry up his branches - his children shall be cut off by sudden judgments. 6. He shall pass away by the breath of his mouth; for by the breath of his mouth doth God slay the wicked.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Commentary on Job 33:42 voices
“The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. Intending to subjoin truth, he first uttered boastful words, and being about to state the sound opinions he held, he first made known how huge was his swelling. The minds of the arrogant are doubtless so very mad, that even in what they think rightly, they are disfigured by the deformity of their pride. And hence even their sound opinions do not instruct their hearers, because in truth they lead them by their haughty sentiments not to reverence but to despise them.”
Gregory the Dialogist · Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIIIPatristic
“The Spirit of God hath made me - Another plain allusion to the account of the creation of man, Gen 2:7, as the words נשמת nishmath, the breath or breathing of God, and תחיני techaiyeni, hath given me life, prove: ‘He breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and he became a living soul.’”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Job 37:10
By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
Commentary on Job 37:101 voice
“By the breath of God frost is given - The freezing of water, though it is generally allowed to be the effect of cold, and has been carefully examined by the most eminent philosophers, is still involved in much mystery; and is a very proper subject to be produced among the great things which God doeth, and which we cannot comprehend, Job 37:5. Water, when frozen, becomes solid, and increases considerably in bulk. The expansive power in freezing is so great, that, if water be confined in a gun-barrel, it will split the solid metal throughout its whole length.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Psalms 18:15
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
Commentary on Psalms 18:152 voices
“So tremendous was the shock of God's assault in arms that the order of nature was changed, and the bottoms of rivers and seas were laid bare. ‘The channels of waters was seen;’ and the deep cavernous bowels of the earth were upheaved till ‘the foundations of the world were discovered.’ What will not Jehovah's ‘rebuke’ do? If ‘the blast of the breath of thy nostrils, ‘O Lord, be so terrible, what must thine arm be?”
Charles Spurgeon · The Treasury of David, Vol. 1, 1869
“Then the channels of water were seen,.... Or, ‘of the sea’; as in 2Sa 22:16. There seems to be an allusion to the drying up of the sea when the Israelites passed through it.”
John Gill · Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
Commentary on Psalms 33:61 voice
“The rule of truth which we hold, is, that there is one God Almighty, who made all things by His Word, and fashioned and formed, out of that which had no existence, all things which exist. Thus saith the Scripture, to that effect ‘By the Word of the Lord were the heavens established, and all the might of them, by the spirit of His mouth.’ And again, ‘All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made.’”
Irenaeus · Against Heresies 1:22.1Patristic
- Isaiah 30:33
For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
Commentary on Isaiah 30:331 voice
“688. For Topheth is prepared. Here he describes the place of punishment. And first, its disposition: Topheth, the valley of the son of Ennom, Gehenna, for the fire for sacrifices was kept there on stones of tufa (Tophis); this is the same as the valley …”
Thomas Aquinas · Commentary on IsaiahPatristic
- Ezekiel 37:9
Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
Commentary on Ezekiel 37:92 voices
“THIS vision has been used, from the time of Jerome onwards, as a description of the resurrection and certainly it may be so accommodated with much effect. What a vision of the great day the words picture before the mind's eye! The great army of the quick, who once were dead, seem to start up as we read. Here, too, we have a very fit and appropriate question to be asked in a tomb—‘Son of man, can these bones live?’”
Charles Spurgeon · The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 582: “The Restoration And Conversion Of The Jews” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition), 1864
“In minute detail the holy prophet Ezekiel teaches and describes how strength will be restored to our dry bones, feeling return and motion added; how, with the return of sinews, the whole structure of the human body will grow strong, and how the driest bones will be clothed with restored flesh and the openings of the veins and the streams of the blood will be concealed by a veil of skin drawn tautly over them.”
Ambrose of Milan · On the Death of Satyrus 2.69Patristic
- Acts 17:25
Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
Commentary on Acts 17:252 voices
“‘He does not require… He Himself giving to all life and breath and all things.’ Two proofs of Divinity, namely: that God needs nothing and grants all things to all. But here Paul also shows that God is not a father, but the Creator of …”
Theophylact of Ohrid · Commentary on ActsPatristic
“Neither is worshipped with men’s hands - The word here rendered ‘worshipped’ (θεραπέυεται therapeuetai) denotes to ‘serve’; to wait upon; and then to render religious service or homage. There is reference here, undoubtedly, to a notion prevalent among the pagan, that the gods were fed or nourished by the offerings made to them. The idea is prevalent among the Hindus that the sacrifices which are made, and which are offered in the temples, are consumed by the gods themselves.”
Albert Barnes · Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical