Ruach — Spirit, Breath, Wind
The Spirit that moved on the face of the waters in Genesis 1:2 — the same word for the breath in your lungs.
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV translations: air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).
Ruach in the Bible — example verses
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”Genesis 1:2 (KJV)
“And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”Genesis 3:8 (KJV)
“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”Genesis 6:3 (KJV)
“And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.”Genesis 6:17 (KJV)
“And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.”Genesis 7:15 (KJV)
“All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.”Genesis 7:22 (KJV)
“And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;”Genesis 8:1 (KJV)
“Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.”Genesis 26:35 (KJV)
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