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The Septuagint 7.22 · 7.22

All that had the breath of life

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καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἔχει πνοὴν ζωῆς καὶ πᾶς ὃς ἦν ἐπὶ τῆς ξηρᾶς ἀπέθανεν.

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πνοὴν ζωῆς, “breath of life,” uses a different word for “breath” (πνοή) than 7:15's πνεῦμα — the same root that gives πνέω, “to blow,” and that Paul echoes at Acts 17:25, “he himself gives to all life and breath [πνοή].”

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