Lexicon :: Strong's G4983 - sōma

Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

They captured all their possessions, dependents, and wives and plundered everything in the houses.

Esau took his wives, sons, daughters, and all the people of his household, as well as his herds, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan; he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.

And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s family with food for their dependents.

When that year was over, they came the next year and said to him, “We cannot hide from our lord that the silver is gone and that all our livestock belongs to our lord. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

“The priest is to put on his linen robe and linen undergarments.[fn] He is to remove the ashes of the burnt offering the fire has consumed on the altar, and place them beside the altar.

“He is to shave off all his hair again on the seventh day: his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; he is clean.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his member, he is unclean.

“If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands in water, the person who was touched is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

“When the man with the discharge has been cured of it, he is to count seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in fresh water; he will be clean.

“When a man has an emission of semen, he is to bathe himself completely with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

“When a woman has a discharge, and it consists of blood from her body, she will be unclean because of her menstruation for seven days. Everyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

“Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

“Everyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

“He is to wear a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments are to be on his body. He is to tie a linen sash around him and wrap his head with a linen turban. These are holy garments; he must bathe his body with water before he wears them.

“He will bathe his body with water in a holy place and put on his clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering; he will make atonement for himself and for the people.

“The man who released the goat for an uninhabitable place is to wash his clothes and bathe his body with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

“The one who burns them is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

“But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, he will bear his iniquity.”

“You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the LORD.

“the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water.

“Do this to them for their purification: Sprinkle them with the purification water. Have them shave their entire bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

“Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening.

“you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

“When evening approaches, he is to wash with water, and when the sun sets he may come inside the camp.

He hung[fn] the body of the king of Ai on a tree[fn] until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which still remains today.

Arab, Dumah,[fn] Eshan,

Then they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

all their brave men set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

“but you went back and ate food and drank water in the place that he said to you, “Do not eat food and do not drink water” — your corpse will never reach the grave of your ancestors.’ ”

When he left,[fn] a lion attacked[fn] him along the way and killed him. His corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it; the lion was standing beside the corpse too.

and he went and found the corpse thrown on the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside the corpse. The lion had not eaten the corpse or mauled the donkey.

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around subdued.

That night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning ​— ​there were all the dead bodies!

all their brave men set out and retrieved the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak[fn] in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

David assembled all the leaders of Israel in Jerusalem: the leaders of the tribes, the leaders of the divisions in the king’s service, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and cattle of the king and his sons, along with the court officials, the fighting men, and all the best soldiers.

But they were disobedient and rebelled against you.

They flung your law behind their backs

and killed your prophets

who warned them

in order to turn them back to you.

They committed terrible blasphemies.

Its abundant harvest goes to the kings

you have set over us,

because of our sins.

They rule over our bodies

and our livestock as they please.

We are in great distress.

The king gave the orders for this to be done, so a law was announced in Susa, and they hung the bodies of Haman’s ten sons.

There the wicked cease to make trouble,

and there the weary find rest.

Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced[fn] me;

my spirit drinks their poison.

God’s terrors are arrayed against me.

My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt.[fn]

My skin forms scabs[fn] and then oozes.

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;

your defenses are made of clay.

He pulls it out of his back,

the flashing tip out of his liver.[fn]

Terrors come over him.

in order to turn a person from his actions

and suppress the pride of a person.

and to be gracious to him and say,

“Spare him from going down to the Pit;

I have found a ransom,”

which the clouds pour out

and shower abundantly on mankind.