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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)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 - “Now if your right eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, [fn]than for your whole body G4983 to be thrown into [fn]hell.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:30 - “And if your right hand is causing you to sin, cut it off and throw it away from you; for it is better for you [fn]to lose one of the parts of your body, [fn]than for your whole body G4983 to go into [fn]hell.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:22 -

“The eye is the lamp of the body G4983; so then, if your eye is [fn]clear, your whole body G4983 will be full of light.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:23 - “But if your eye is [fn]bad, your whole body G4983 will be full of darkness. So if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:25 -

“For this reason I say to you, [fn]do not be worried about your [fn]life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body G4983, as to what you will put on. Is life not more than food, and the body G4983 more than clothing?

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:28 - “And do not be afraid of those who kill the body G4983 but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body G4983 in [fn]hell.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:12 - “For when she poured this perfume on My body G4983, she did it to prepare Me for burial.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:26 -

Now while they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and [fn]after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My body G4983.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:52 - Also the tombs were opened, and many bodies G4983 of the [fn]saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:58 - This man went to Pilate and asked for the body G4983 of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:59 - And Joseph took the body G4983 and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:29 - And immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body G4983 that she was healed of her disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:8 - “She has done what she could; she has anointed My body G4983 beforehand for the burial.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:22 -

While they were eating, He took some bread, and [fn]after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is My body G4983.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:43 - Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself also waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate, and asked for the body G4983 of Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:34 - “Your eye is the lamp of your body G4983; when your eye is [fn]clear, your whole body G4983 also is full of light; but when it is [fn]bad, your body G4983 also is full of darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:36 - “Therefore if your whole body G4983 is full of light, without any dark part, it will be wholly illuminated, as when the lamp illuminates you with its light.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:4 -

“Now I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body G4983, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:22 -

And He said to His disciples, “For this reason I tell you, [fn]do not worry about your [fn]life, as to what you are to eat; nor for your body G4983, as to what you are to wear.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:23 - “For life is more than food, and the body G4983 is more than clothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:37 - And responding, they *said to Him, “Where, Lord?” And He said to them, “Where the body G4983 is, there also the [fn]vultures will be gathered.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:19 - And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body G4983, which is being given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:52 - this man went to Pilate and asked for the body G4983 of Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:55 - Now the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how His body G4983 was laid.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:3 - but when they entered, they did not find the body G4983 of the Lord Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:23 - and did not find His body G4983, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:21 - But He was speaking about the [fn]temple of His body G4983.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:31 -

Now then, since it was the day of preparation, to prevent the bodies G4983 from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath ([fn]for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews requested of Pilate that their legs be broken, and the bodies be taken away.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:38 -

Now after these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the [fn]Jews, requested of Pilate that he might take away the body G4983 of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body G4983.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:40 - So they took the body G4983 of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:12 - and she *saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body G4983 of Jesus had been lying.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:40 - But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body G4983, he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:24 -

Therefore God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies G4983 would be dishonored among them.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:19 - Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body G4983, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:6 - knowing this, that our old [fn]self was crucified with Him, in order that our body G4983 of sin might be [fn]done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:12 -

Therefore sin is not to reign in your mortal body G4983 so that you obey its lusts,

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:4 -

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in regard to the Law through the body G4983 of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:24 - Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from [fn]the body G4983 of this death?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:10 - If Christ is in you, though the body G4983 is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is [fn]alive because of righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:11 - But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies G4983 [fn]through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:13 - for if you are living in accord with the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body G4983, you will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:23 - And not only that, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons and daughters, the redemption of our body G4983.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:1 -

Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies G4983 as a living and holy sacrifice, [fn]acceptable to God, which is your [fn]spiritual service of worship.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:4 - For just as we have many parts in one body G4983 and all [fn]the body’s parts do not have the same function,
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:5 - so we, who are many, are one body G4983 in Christ, and individually parts of one another.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:3 -

For I, on my part, though absent in body G4983 but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:13 - Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, however God will do away with both [fn]of them. But the body G4983 is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body G4983.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:15 - Do you not know that your bodies G4983 are parts of Christ? Shall I then take away the parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? [fn]Far from it!
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:16 - Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body G4983 with her? For He says, “THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:18 - Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body G4983, but the [fn]sexually immoral person sins against his own body G4983.

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