life. This is the main connection between ruach and another Hebrew word, neshamah. In most of its approximately 25 uses, neshamah refers to ordinary human breath as the indicator of life. Genesis 2:7 describes God as breathing into the inert Adam’s nostrils the “neshamah of life.” When used of God, the “neshamah of God” is equivalent to the “ruach of God” in the sense of God’s creative and destroying breath. See 2 Sa 22:16; Job 4:9; 32:8; 33:4; 37:10; Ps 18:15; Isa 30:33. The third main connotation