breath of God
Spirit's creative wind
The breath of God is a phrase from religious and poetic traditions referring to divine creative or life-giving force.
In Genesis, God breathes life into Adam; the breath animates what was merely clay.
The phrase extends to anything perceived as divinely inspired or spiritually vivifying: The poem carried the breath of God.
In some traditions, scripture itself is considered the breath of God—words breathed into human writers.
- Holy SpiritThird divine person
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- divineOf or from gods
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
- lifeAnimate state
living soul · soul · divine spark · pneuma · wind · holy · sacred · Genesis · Garden of Eden · creation · animate · exhale · whisper · vital · heaven · dust · Adam · living
- Divine Presencedivine presence, theophany, immanence, omnipresence, indwelling
- Holy SpiritHoly Spirit, pneuma, advocate, helper, third person
breath of Godkiss of death
Ultimately ruinous act
angel of death · death rattle · last gasp · fatal blow · wrath of God
breath of Godspiritual void
Absence of transcendent meaning
godlessness · soullessness · spiritual death · emptiness · the void
breath, breathe, breaths, breathed, breathing, breather, breathless, breathlessly, breathlessness