Ezekiel 37:9
Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus said the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
Nave's Topical Index

5315. nephesh -- a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire ...
... of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative
sense (bodily or mental) -- any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X ...
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victor Apparently Gives the Creative Breath to Man Also.
... of life whereby man became a living soul, and the latter breathed a breath which
was not itself sentient nor endued with life, but was figurative for the sake ...
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The Dry Bones and the Spirit of Life
... So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived ...
say that their bones were dried up, and they cut off, is a figurative one, and ...
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Other Passages Out of the Prophets Applied to the Resurrection of ...
... enough seem to have consoled their figurative despair with a figurative promise ...
reinvesting those osseous remains with bodily substance and vital breath, and of ...
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Ezekiel's vision of the Dry Bones Quoted.
... Inasmuch, then, as even the figurative portions of Scripture, and the arguments
of facts ... the Lord God to these bones, Behold, I bring upon you the breath of life ...
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Chapter vii
... need such a conception, pressed out of the literal understanding of figurative language,
be ... wings; of every sort of flesh which had in it the breath of life ...
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Chapter ii
... outlines or by the basic thoughts which are here expressed in terms highly figurative? ...
the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ...
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Angelic Comforters.
... There is a "still small voice" amid the long-drawn breath of the tempest ... us too many
positive statements on the subject to permit a figurative interpretation. ...
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This vision Interpreted by Tertullian of the Resurrection of the ...
... literal condition; and therefore (they contend) that there is here a figurative,
not a ... bones are destined to have a rehabiliment of flesh and breath, such as ...
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Spiritual Epileptics.
... but about the passage before us, let us, adopting a figurative interpretation, consider
who ... them down from the sphere where they appeared to breath freely, so ...
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The Rich Man and Lazarus.
... [94] It is true a figurative meaning has been applied to it, as to all ... Here is an
affluent citizen, on whose fair fame the breath of scandal can affix no blot. ...
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