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Lexicon :: Strong's G4983 - sōma

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σῶμα
Transliteration
sōma (Key)
Pronunciation
so'-mah
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TDNT Reference: 7:1024,1140

Strong’s Definitions

σῶμα sōma, so'-mah; from G4982; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively:—bodily, body, slave.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 146x

The KJV translates Strong's G4983 in the following manner: body (144x), bodily (1x), slave (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 146x
The KJV translates Strong's G4983 in the following manner: body (144x), bodily (1x), slave (1x).
  1. the body both of men or animals

    1. a dead body or corpse

    2. the living body

      1. of animals

  2. the bodies of planets and of stars (heavenly bodies)

  3. is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body

    1. so in the NT of the church

  4. that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σῶμα sōma, so'-mah; from G4982; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively:—bodily, body, slave.
STRONGS G4983:
σῶμα, σώματος, τό (apparently from σῶς 'entire' (but cf. Curtius, § 570; others from the root, ska, sko, 'to cover', cf. Vanicek, p. 1055; Curtius, p. 696)), the Sept. for בָּשָׂר, גְּוִיָּה, etc.; נְבֵלָה (a corpse), also for Chaldean גֶּשֶׁם; a body; and:
1. the body both of men and of animals (on the distinction between it and σάρξ see σάρξ, especially 2 at the beginning; (cf. Dickson, St. Paul's use of 'Flesh' and 'Spirit', p. 247ff));
a. as everywhere in Homer (who calls the living body δέμας and not infreqently in subsequently Greek writings, a dead body or corpse: universally, Luke 17:37; of a man, Matthew 14:12 R G; (Mark 15:45 R G); Acts 9:40; plural John 19:31; τό σῶμα τίνος, Matthew 27:58; Mark 15:43; Luke 23:52, 55; John 19:38, 40; John 20:12; Jude 1:9; of the body of an animal offered in sacrifice, plural Hebrews 13:11 (Exodus 29:14; Numbers 19:3).
b. as in Greek writings from Hesiod down, the living body: — of animals, James 3:3; — of man: τό σῶμα, absolutely, Luke 11:34; Luke 12:23; 1 Corinthians 6:13, etc.; ἐν σώματι εἶναι, of earthly life with its troubles, Hebrews 13:3; distinguished from τό αἷμα, 1 Corinthians 11:27; τό σῶμα and τά μέλη of it, 1 Corinthians 12:12, 14-20; James 3:6; τό σῶμα the temple of τό ἅγιον πνεῦμα, 1 Corinthians 6:19; the instrument of the soul, τά διά τοῦ σωματου namely, πραχθεντα, 2 Corinthians 5:10; it is distinguished — from τό πνεῦμα, in Romans 8:10; 1 Corinthians 5:3; 1 Corinthians 6:20 Rec.; 1 Cor. 7:34; James 2:26 (4 Macc. 11:11); — from ψυχή, in Matthew 6:25; Matthew 10:28; Luke 12:22 (Wis. 1:4 Wis. 8:19f; 2 Macc. 7:37 2Macc. 14:38; 4 Macc. 1:28, etc.); — from ψυχή and τό πνεῦμα together, in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (cf. Song of the Three, 63); σῶμα ψυχικόν and σῶμα πνευματικόν are distinguished, 1 Corinthians 15:44 (see πνευματικός, 1 and ψυχικός, a.); τό σῶμα τίνος, Matthew 5:29; Luke 11:34; Romans 4:19; Romans 8:23 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 187 (176)), etc.; ναός τοῦ σωματου αὐτοῦ, the temple which was his body, John 2:21; plural, Romans 1:24; 1 Corinthians 6:15; Ephesians 5:28; the genitive of the possessor is omitted where it is easily learned from the context, as 1 Corinthians 5:3; 2 Corinthians 4:10; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Hebrews 10:22(23), etc.; τό σῶμα τῆς ταπεινώσεως ἡμῶν, the body of our humiliation (subjective genitive), i. e. which we wear in this servile and lowly human life, opposed to τό σῶμα τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ (i. e. τοῦ Χριστοῦ), the body which Christ has in his glorified state with God in heaven, Philippians 3:21; διά τοῦ σωματου τοῦ Χριστοῦ, through the death of Christ's body, Romans 7:4; διά τῆς προσφοράς τοῦ σωματου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, through the sacrificial offering of the body of Jesus Christ, Hebrews 10:10; τό σῶμα τῆς σαρκός, the body consisting of flesh, i. e. the physical body (tacitly opposed to Christ's spiritual body, the church, see 3 below), Colossians 1:22 (differently in Colossians 2:11 (see just below)); σῶμα τοῦ θανάτου, the body subject to death, given over to it (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 β.), Romans 7:24; the fact that the body includes σάρξ:, and in the flesh also the incentives to sin (see σάρξ, 4), gives origin to the following phrases: μή βασιλευέτω ἁμαρτία ἐν τῷ θνητῷ ὑμῶν σώματι, Romans 6:12 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 524 (488)); αἱ πράξεις τοῦ σώματος, Romans 8:13. Since the body is the instrument of the soul (2 Corinthians 5:10), and its members the instruments either of righteousness or of iniquity (Romans 6:13, 19), the following expressions are easily intelligible: σῶμα τῆς ἁμαρτίας, the body subject to, the thrall of, sin (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 β.), Romans 6:6; τό σῶμα τῆς σαρκός, subject to the incitements of the flesh, Colossians 2:11 (where Rec. has τό σῶμα τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τῆς σαρκός). δοξάζετε τόν Θεόν ἐν τῷ σώματι ὑμῶν, 1 Corinthians 6:20; μεγαλύνειν τόν Χριστόν ἐν τῷ σώματι, εἴτε διά ζωῆς, εἴτε διά θανάτου, Philippians 1:20; παραστῆσαι τά σώματα θυσίαν... τῷ Θεῷ (i. e. by bodily purity (cf. Meyer at the passage)), Romans 12:1.
c. Since according to ancient law in the ease of slaves the body was the chief thing taken into account, it is a usage of later Greek to call slaves simply σώματα; once so in the N. T.: Revelation 18:13, where the Vulg. correctly translates bymancipia (A. V. slaves) (σώματα τοῦ οἴκου, Genesis 36:6; σώματα καί κτήνη, Tobit 10:10; Ἰουδαικα σώματα, 2 Macc. 8:11; examples from Greek writings are given by Lob. ad Phryn., p. 378f (add (from Sophocles Lexicon, under the word), Polybius 1, 29, 7; 4, 38, 4, also 3, 17, 10 bis); the earlier and more elegant Greek writings said σώματα δοῦλα, ὀικετικα, etc.).
2. The name is transferred to the bodies of plants, 1 Corinthians 15:37f, and of stars (cf. our 'heavenly bodies'), hence, Paul distinguishes between σώματα ἐπουράνια, bodies celestial, i. e. the bodies of the heavenly luminaries and of angels (see ἐπουράνιος, 1), and σώματα ἐπίγεια, bodies terrestrial (i. e. bodies of men, animals, and plants), 1 Corinthians 15:40 (ἅπαν σῶμα τῆς τῶν ὅλων φύσεως... τό σῶμα τοῦ κόσμου, diod. 1, 11).
3. tropically σῶμα is used of a (large or small) "number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body"; so in the N. T. of the church: Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 10:17; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 2:16; Ephesians 4:16; Ephesians 5:23; Colossians 1:18; Colossians 2:19 3:15; with τοῦ Χριστοῦ added, 1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 1:23; Ephesians 4:12; Ephesians 5:30; Colossians 1:24; of which spiritual body Christ; is the head, Ephesians 4:15; Ephesians 5:23; Colossians 1:18; Colossians 2:19, who by the influence of his Spirit works in the church as the soul does in the body. ἕν σῶμα καί ἕν πνεῦμα, Ephesians 4:4.
4. σκιά and τό σῶμα are distinguished as the shadow and the thing itself which casts the shadow: Colossians 2:17; σκιάν αἰτησόμενος βασιλείας, ἧς ἥρπασεν ἑαυτῷ τό σῶμα, Josephus, b. j. 2, 2, 5; ((Philo de confus. ling. § 37; Lucian, Hermot. 79)).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
36:6
Exodus
29:14
Numbers
19:3
Matthew
5:29; 6:25; 10:28; 14:12; 27:58
Mark
15:43; 15:45
Luke
11:34; 11:34; 12:22; 12:23; 17:37; 23:52; 23:55
John
2:21; 19:31; 19:38; 19:40; 20:12
Acts
9:40
Romans
1:24; 4:19; 6:6; 6:12; 6:13; 6:19; 7:4; 7:24; 8:10; 8:13; 8:23; 12:1; 12:5
1 Corinthians
5:3; 5:3; 6:13; 6:15; 6:19; 6:20; 6:20; 7:34; 10:16; 10:17; 11:27; 12; 12:12; 12:13; 12:27; 15:37; 15:40; 15:44
2 Corinthians
4:10; 5:8; 5:10; 5:10
Ephesians
1:23; 2:16; 4:4; 4:12; 4:15; 4:16; 5:23; 5:23; 5:28; 5:30
Philippians
1:20; 3:21
Colossians
1:18; 1:18; 1:22; 1:24; 2:11; 2:11; 2:17; 2:19; 2:19; 3:15
1 Thessalonians
5:23
Hebrews
10:10; 10:22; 13:3; 13:11
James
2:26; 3:3; 3:6
Jude
1:9
Revelation
18:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4983 matches the Greek σῶμα (sōma),
which occurs 142 times in 120 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Mat 5:29–1Co 6:18)

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:29 -

“If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:30 -

“And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:22 -

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:23 -

“But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:25 -

“Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:28 -

“Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:12 -

“By pouring this perfume on my body, she has prepared me for burial.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:26 -

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take and eat it; this is my body.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:52 -

The tombs were also opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:58 -

He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body. Then Pilate ordered that it[fn] be released.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:59 -

So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in clean, fine linen,

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:29 -

Instantly her flow of blood ceased, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:8 -

“She has done what she could; she has anointed my body in advance for burial.

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:22 -

As they were eating, he took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:43 -

Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came and boldly went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:34 -

“Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad, your body is also full of darkness.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:36 -

“If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:4 -

“I say to you, my friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:22 -

Then he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:23 -

“For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:37 -

“Where, Lord? ” they asked him.

He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:19 -

And he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:52 -

He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:55 -

The women who had come with him from Galilee followed along and observed the tomb and how his body was placed.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:3 -

They went in but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:23 -

“and when they didn’t find his body, they came and reported that they had seen a vision of angels who said he was alive.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:21 -

But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:31 -

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special[fn] day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:38 -

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus ​— ​but secretly because of his fear of the Jews ​— ​asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’s body. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and took his body away.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:40 -

They took Jesus’s body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the fragrant spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:12 -

She saw two angels in white sitting where Jesus’s body had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:40 -

Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down, prayed, and turning toward the body said, “Tabitha, get up.” She opened her eyes, saw Peter, and sat up.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:24 -

Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:19 -

He did not weaken in faith when he considered[fn] his own body to be already dead (since he was about a hundred years old) and also the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:6 -

For we know that our old self[fn] was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin[fn] might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:12 -

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey[fn] its desires.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:4 -

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another. You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:24 -

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:10 -

Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit[fn] gives life[fn] because of righteousness.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:11 -

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then he who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through[fn] his Spirit who lives in you.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:13 -

because if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:23 -

Not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits ​— ​we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:1 -

Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:4 -

Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function,

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:5 -

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:3 -

Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who has been doing such a thing.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:13 -

“Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:15 -

Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:16 -

Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:18 -

Flee sexual immorality! Every other sin[fn] a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.


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