Genesis 7:22 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 7:22

Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

KJV

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֹּ֡ל	kol	all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁר֩	'a.Sher	that	H834 →
נִשְׁמַת־	nish.mat-	[the] breath of	H5397 →
ר֨וּחַ	Ru.ach	[the] breath of	H7307 →
חַיִּ֜ים	chai.Yim	life	H2416 →
בְּאַפָּ֗יו	be.'a.Pav	[was] in nostrils its	H639 →
מִכֹּ֛ל	mi.Kol	from all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	that	H834 →
בֶּחָֽרָבָ֖ה	be.cha.ra.Vah	[was] on the dry ground	H2724 →
מֵֽתוּ׃	Me.tu	they died	H4191 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
  before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Job 33:4
  The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45
  So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
- Isaiah 64:8
  But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
- 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.
Through
Genesis 6:17
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
leads to
- Genesis 7:4
  For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
- 2 Peter 2:5
  if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
- Genesis 7:21–23
  And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.