Out of Nothing or Out of Dust?

So I'm questioning verse 27 of Genesis chapter 1 today. It's a really beautiful break of poetry in the story of creation, very much like the rest of the Bible in that it is repeating and very rhythmic if said in Hebrew it seems. The only reason I went to see what the Hebrew was on the verse was because I wanted to see what it meant to be formed in the image of God. I mean, I know what I've always been told, but I just wanted to see why, or if what I've been told was wrong. So here's Genesis 1:27.

In Engish:
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

In Hebrew:
Elohim bara adam tselem
Tselem elohim bara
Zakar neqebah bara

So actually when I started investigating this verse, something altogether different jumped out at me. Bara. I know that I've been like all over studying this verb, but then that's probably why it's jumping out at me when I see it. It's one of those few Hebrew words that I actually have a bit of understanding for, all for its full use. Like, I know that bara is almost always translated as "create" and that the actually meaning of the word is something like to create out of nothing. Like I said the other day:

"I've found that it really indicates that something was created where nothing was before. So when You bara' the heavens and the earth, You weren't taking pieces of something and fashioning it into another thing. You were making matter, brand new."

So here it is really interesting that the word bara is used in the creation of man, because we KNOW that You used dirt to create us. That You DID fashion man out of something. That You DID take matter that You'd already created and mold it together to make humans.

Now this seems significant to me, but maybe its not. It seems to me that when we were made in God's image, when You bara'ed us, made us from nothing this was not our physical bodies. This was the part of us that is most truly us, our emotions, our feelings, our intellect, our heart...to sum it all up: our soul. That is the part that is made in Your image.

Then You took the dust of the earth and formed our physical bodies. The word for making man from the dust is yatsar, not bara. The breathing into us was the bara. That's where life comes from. That's why we will never be able to create life from nothing ourselves. You are the one who bara's it. You are the one who gives us soul.

I will rejoice in my soul, the part of me that is like You, today.