Wind and breath imagery uses moving air, breath, blowing, and spirit-language to describe life, transience, judgment, divine action, and the mysterious work of God.
Wind and breath imagery uses moving air, breath, blowing, and spirit-language to describe life, transience, judgment, divine action, and the mysterious work of God.
A biblical ruach/pneuma-related motif in which wind and breath language may denote physical air, life-breath, human frailty, divine agency, Spirit-given life, or judgment movement depending on context.
These examples show how Wind and Breath Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
Breath imagery describes life as received from God.
like the chaff which the wind driveth away
Wind imagery pictures the instability and removal of the wicked.
the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it
Wind/breath imagery emphasizes human frailty before the LORD.
I will cause breath to enter into you
Breath imagery portrays resurrection-like restoration by divine power.
come from the four winds, O breath
Wind and breath imagery intensifies the vision of life given to dry bones.
the wind bloweth where it listeth
Wind imagery explains the sovereign mystery of the Spirit’s new-birth work.
he breathed on them
Breath imagery accompanies Christ’s word concerning the Holy Spirit.
a rushing mighty wind
Wind imagery marks the dramatic arrival of Pentecost power.
turned about with a very small helm
Wind imagery in the ship comparison helps illustrate the tongue’s disproportionate influence.
holding the four winds of the earth
Four-winds imagery represents restrained judgment at a cosmic scale.
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