Breath in a dream

Biblical meaning from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa

Also: Inhalation, Exhalation, Breathing, Breath of life

What it means

God's breath is God's Spirit; human breath is the human spirit. Breath represents the animating life force given by God that sustains existence.

INSTABILITY AND TRANSIENCE: breath represents human frailty and vanity — man's life is a mere breath, fleeting and temporary.

A SHAKING: agitation, trembling or disruption caused by breath or wind.

✦ When it is positive

Life and renewal
The imparting of life
Divine inspiration
Spiritual revitalisation
The sustaining presence of God within humanity

⚠ When it is a warning

Frailty and vanity
Human arrogance proving empty
Life easily snuffed out

How to tell the difference

Distinguish BREATH GIVEN (life, Spirit, revival — He breathed on them and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost) from BREATH FAILING (frailty, mortality, vanity). Breath entering dry bones is resurrection; breath departing is death.

Scripture

The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7 (WEB)

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Job 27:3 (WEB)

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Psalm 144:4 (WEB)

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’”
Ezekiel 37:9 (WEB)

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
John 20:22 (WEB)