divine breath
God's life force
Divine breath is the life force or animating spirit believed to originate from a deity.
In many religious traditions, God breathes life into creation—the breath that separates living beings from inert matter.
The concept connects physical respiration to spiritual essence: The divine breath entered the clay figure and it became a living soul.
Related terms like spirit and inspiration derive from words meaning breath.
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- soulInnermost animating essence
- pneumaGreek vital spirit
- pranaVital breath energy
- chi energyVital life force
living spirit · life force · inspiration · holy spirit · gift of life · kiss of life · whisper · still small voice · wind · sacred · ethereal · animate · creator · genesis · exhale · vital · essence · transcendent
- spiritghost, specter, phantom, apparition, soul
- Divine Presencetheophany, immanence, omnipresence, indwelling, Holy Spirit
- Holy SpiritHoly Spirit, pneuma, advocate, helper, third person
- soul conceptsatman, psyche, anima, pneuma, ba
- Egyptian mythologyRa, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Anubis
- etherether, aether, ethereal, quintessence, fifth element
divine, breath, divinely, divinity, divinities, divination, divinatory, diviner, diviners