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sarx G4561

σάρξ (sarx) means “flesh” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

σάρξ Greek · G4561 147 tagged occurrences in 126 verses

Pronunciation guide: sarx Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G4561

σάρξ · sarx · flesh

σάρξ, σαρκός, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for בָּשָׂר ;] flesh; 1. as in cl. generally, (a) prop., of the soft substance of the animal body: 1Co.15:39, 2Co.12:7, Gal.6:13, al.; σ. καὶ αἷμα, 1Co.5:50; σ. καὶ ὀστέα, Luk.24:39; pl., of the flesh of many or parts of the flesh of one (cl.), Rev.17:16 19:18; φαγεῖν, Re, ll. with (cf. κατεσθίειν, 4Ki.9:36, al., and βιβρώσκειν, frequently in l.); metaphorically, Jas.5:3; mystically, φ. (τρώγειν) τὴν σ. τοῦ υἱοῦ τ. ἀνθρώπου, Jhn.6:52-56; (b) Of the whole substance of the body, = σῶμα: Act.2:26 (LXX), 31, 2Co.12:7, Gal.4:14, Eph.5:29; μία σ., Mrk.10:8; εἰς σ. μίαν (Gen.2:24), Mat.19:5, Mrk.10:8, 1Co.6:16, Eph.5:31; hence, of the material as opposite to the immaterial part of man (cf. Lft., Notes, 88): opposite to πνεῦμα, 1Co.5:5, 2Co.7:1, Col.2:5, 1Pe.3:18, 4:6; to ψύχη, Act.2:31, Rec.; of the present life, ἐν (τῇ) σ., Rom.7:5, Gal.2:20, Php.1:22, 24 1Pe.4:2; of Christ's life on earth, αἱ ἡμέραι τ. σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ, Heb.5:7; of things pertaining to the body, ἐν (τῇ) σ., Gal.6:12, 13 Php.3:3, 4. 2. As in Heb. idiom, (a) of a living creature: πᾶσα σ. (Heb. כָּל־בָּשָׂר; cf. Bl., §47, 9), Mat.24:22, Mrk.13:20, 1Pe.1:24; esp. of man and his mortality (Psa.55 (56):5, Sir.28:5, al.), Jhn.1:14; πᾶσα σ. (see supr.), Luk.3:6, Jhn.17:2, Act.2:17, ἐν σ., 1Jo.4:2, 1Ti.3:16; (b) of natural origin and relationship (Gen.2:24, Isa.58:7, al.): τέκνα τῆς σ., Rom.9:8; κατὰ σάρκα, ib. 3, 5, 1Co.10:18, Gal.4:23, 29; ἡ σ. μου, Rom.11:14 (cf. Jdg.9:2, 2Ki.5:1, al.). 3. Of the physical nature as subject to sensation and desire (Plut.), (a) without any ethical disparagement: Rom.7:18 13:14; opposite to πνεῦμα, Mat.26:41, Mrk.14:38; τ. θέλημα τῆς σ., Jhn.1:13; ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῆς σ., 1Jn.2:16; pl., 2Pe.2:18; παθεῖν σαρκί, 1Pe.4:1; (b) in ethical sense, esp. in Pauline Epp., of the flesh as the seat and vehicle of sinful desires: opposite to νοῦς, Rom.7:25; to πνεῦμα, Rom.8:4-9, 12, 13, Gal.5:16, 17 19 6:8 (cf. DB, ii, 14f.; iv, 165f.; Cremer, 844ff.). (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred.

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How translators render G4561

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
flesh 55
the flesh 21
body 10
the body 3
bodies 2
flesh is 2
in his body 2
in the flesh 2
of the flesh 2
people 2
physical 2
sinful nature 2
by flesh 1
earthly 1
earthly life 1
external 1
from the body 1
human standards 1
humanity 1
illness 1
in the body 1
it 1
life 1
man 1
on earth 1
one 1
outwardly 1
people to jealousy 1
person 1
the human descent 1
the people 1
their bodies 1
unspiritual 1
with flesh 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
the flesh 64
flesh 52
of the flesh 15
in the flesh 6
of 2
to the flesh 2
by the flesh 1
carnal 1
carnally 1
fleshly 1
for the flesh 1
of flesh 1
the carnal 1
with flesh 1
with the flesh 1

Verses containing G4561

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

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  2. 1 Corinthians 7:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.

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  3. 1 Corinthians 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?

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  4. 1 Corinthians 15:39 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

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  5. 1 Corinthians 15:50 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

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  6. 2 Corinthians 1:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” and also “No, no”?

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  7. 2 Corinthians 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

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  8. 2 Corinthians 5:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

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  9. 2 Corinthians 7:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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  10. 2 Corinthians 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.

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  11. 2 Corinthians 10:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.

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  12. 2 Corinthians 10:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

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  13. 2 Corinthians 11:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.

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  14. 2 Corinthians 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

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  15. Galatians 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

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  16. Galatians 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

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  17. Galatians 2:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

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  18. Galatians 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?

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  19. Galatians 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

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  20. Galatians 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.

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  21. Galatians 4:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

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  22. Galatians 4:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

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  23. Galatians 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

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  24. Galatians 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

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  25. Galatians 5:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

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  26. Galatians 5:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

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  27. Galatians 5:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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  28. Galatians 6:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

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  29. Galatians 6:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

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  30. Galatians 6:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

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  31. Ephesians 2:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

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  32. Ephesians 2:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

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  33. Ephesians 2:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

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  34. Ephesians 5:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

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  35. Ephesians 5:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

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  36. Ephesians 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

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  37. Ephesians 6:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

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  38. Philippians 1:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.

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  39. Philippians 1:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

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  40. Philippians 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

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  41. Philippians 3:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

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  42. Colossians 1:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

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    Source alternate reference: 1.21

  43. Colossians 1:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.

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  44. Colossians 2:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,

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  45. Colossians 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

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  46. Colossians 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

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  47. Colossians 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

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  48. Colossians 2:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

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  49. Colossians 2:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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  50. Colossians 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.

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