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sōma G4983

σῶμα (sōma) means “body” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

σῶμα Greek · G4983 142 tagged occurrences in 120 verses

Pronunciation guide: so'-mah Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G4983

σῶμα · sōma · body

σῶμα, -τος, τό, [in LXX for גְּוִיָּה ,בָּשָׂר, etc., and for Aram. נְבֵלָה ;] a body. 1. Prop., of the human body, (a) as always in Hom. (opposite to δέμας), of the dead body: Mat.27:58, 59 Mrk.15:43, al.; (b) of the living body: Luk.11:34, 1Co.6:13, al.; ἐν σ. εἶναι, Heb.13:3; as the instrument of the soul, τὰ διὰ τοῦ σ., 2Co.5:10; opposite to πνεῦμα, Rom.8:10, 1Co.5:3 7:4, Jas.2:26; to ψυχή, Mat.6:25 10:28, Luk.12:22 (cf. Wis.1:1, al.); to τὸ π. καὶ ἡ ψ., 1Th.5:23; σ. ψυχικόν, opposite to σ. πνευματικόν, 1Co.15:44; ὁ ναὸς τοῦ σ. αὐτοῦ (genitive epexeg.), Jhn.2:21; τὸ σ. τ. ταπεινώσεως (Hebraistic "genitive of definition"; M, Pr., 73f.; Bl., §35, 5), opposite to τὸ σ. τ. δοξῆς αὐτοῦ, Php.3:21; similarly, τὸ σ. τ. σαρκός, Col.1:22; σ. τοῦ θανάτου (subject to death), Rom.7:24; σ. τ. ἁμαρτίας, Rom.6:6; (with) periphr., ἀνθρώπου, then absol., σῶμα (Soph., Xen., al.), a person, and in later writers (Polyb., al.), a slave: Rev.18:13 (cf. MM, i, ii, xxiv; Deiss., BS, 160). 2. Of the bodies of animals: living, Jas.3:3; dead, Heb.13:11 ( Exo.29:14, al.). 3. Of inanimate objects (cf. Eng. "heavenly bodies"): 1Co.15:37, 38 40 (Diod., al.). 4. Of any corporeal substance (Plat., al.): opposite to σκιά, Col.2:17. Metaphorical, of a number of persons united by a common bond; in NT, of the Church as the spiritual body of Christ: Rom.12:5, 1Co.10:16, 17 12:13, 27, Eph.1:23 2:16 4:4, 12, 16 5:23, 30, Col.1:18, 24 2:19 3:15; ἓν σ. κ. ἓν πνεῦμα, Eph.4:4. (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

body, flesh; the body of the Church.

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How translators render G4983

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
body 102
bodies 12
the body 3
a body 2
body is 2
in body 2
it 2
physical 2
animal 1
body be 1
body that casts it 1
body were 1
carcass 1
of bodies 1
of body 1
of the body 1
parts 1
person 1
suffering with them 1
the bodies 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
body 63
the body 50
of the body 12
bodies 8
a body 2
for the body 2
in body 2
of 2
the bodies 2
bodily 1
bodys 1
for 1
in 1
our bodies 1
slaves 1
to the body 1

Verses containing G4983

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  1. Matthew 5:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  2. Matthew 5:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

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  3. Matthew 6:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.

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  4. Matthew 6:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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  5. Matthew 6:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

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  6. Matthew 10:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

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  7. Matthew 26:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.

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  8. Matthew 26:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”

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  9. Matthew 27:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

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  10. Matthew 27:58 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

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  11. Matthew 27:59 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

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  12. Mark 5:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

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  13. Mark 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.

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  14. Mark 14:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take it; this is My body.”

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  15. Mark 15:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent Council member who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God, boldly went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

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  16. Luke 11:34 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.

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  17. Luke 11:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining on you.”

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  18. Luke 12:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I tell you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.

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  19. Luke 12:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.

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  20. Luke 12:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

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  21. Luke 17:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Where, Lord?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”

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  22. Luke 22:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

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  23. Luke 23:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

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  24. Luke 23:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how His body was placed.

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  25. Luke 24:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

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  26. Luke 24:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.

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  27. John 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.

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  28. John 19:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

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  29. John 19:38 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.

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  30. John 19:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.

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  31. John 20:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.

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  32. Acts 9:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  33. Romans 1:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

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  34. Romans 4:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

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  35. Romans 6:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

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  36. Romans 6:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  37. Romans 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

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  38. Romans 7:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  39. Romans 8:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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  40. Romans 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

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  41. Romans 8:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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  42. Romans 8:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

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  43. Romans 12:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

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  44. Romans 12:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,

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  45. Romans 12:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.

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  46. 1 Corinthians 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

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  47. 1 Corinthians 6:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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  48. 1 Corinthians 6:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

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  49. 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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  50. 1 Corinthians 6:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

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