![]() ![]() We discussed abiogenesis on Day 3 of Creation when God created dry land. We’ll get to a much deeper explanation of water and life as well as the breath of life and living souls in upcoming posts, but dust, as such, is dead. ![]() The breath of LIFE He was going to infuse in humans.The LIFE-GIVING mist and rain in the preceding verses 5–6.There is a vivid contrast that God wants humans to understand. עָפַר ʻâphar aw-far’ a primitive root meaning either to be gray or perhaps rather to pulverize used only as denominative from H6083 (עָפָר), to be dust: ![]() KJV - ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish. עָפָר ʻâphâr aw-fawr’ from H6080 (עָפַר) dust (as powdered or gray) hence, clay, earth, mud: Let’s first see the Biblical Hebrew and how the King James translators rendered it. Why did Yahveh choose dust and not the ground? Because dust teaches us several characteristics. Why this contrast?Īnd the LORD God formed man of the dust (H6083) of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. Immediately after evoking the mist that watered the ground with the luscious flowering greenery, the narrative switches abruptly to Yahveh, forming man out of the most sterile part of that same ground. That’s not far off, but it’s not exactly right. What does it really mean? If you asked someone what the Bible says man is composed of, I think the general answer you’d get is: of the ground. Quite a well known Bible verse from Genesis 3:19. One Biblical Hebrew translation is even more explicit.ĭust you are and to dust shall you return. God made man from the dust of the ground. ![]()
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