G4983: σῶμα
sōma · “body”
Definition
the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively
KJV translates it as: bodily, body, slave
Word origin: from G4982 (σώζω);
Extended definition
[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)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G4983 is translated
- body ×93
- body, ×10
- bodies ×8
- a body ×5
- body; ×3
- body? ×3
- body. ×3
- the body ×3
- body is ×2
- our body ×2
- of body ×1
- body is, ×1
Bible verses with G4983 (sōma)
Sōma appears in 120 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Matthew 5:29
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
- Matthew 5:30
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
- Matthew 6:22
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
- Matthew 6:23
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
- Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
- Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
- Matthew 26:12
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
- Matthew 26:26
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
- Matthew 27:52
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
- Matthew 27:58
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
- Matthew 27:59
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
- Mark 5:29
And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
- Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
- Mark 14:22
And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
- Mark 15:43
Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
- Luke 11:34
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
- Luke 11:36
If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
- Luke 12:4
And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
- Luke 12:22
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
- Luke 12:23
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
- Luke 17:37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
- Luke 22:19
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
- Luke 23:52
This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
- Luke 23:55
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
- Luke 24:3
And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
All 120 references
- Luke 24:23
- John 2:21
- John 19:31
- John 19:38
- John 19:40
- John 20:12
- Acts 9:40
- Romans 1:24
- Romans 4:19
- Romans 6:6
- Romans 6:12
- Romans 7:4
- Romans 7:24
- Romans 8:10
- Romans 8:11
- Romans 8:13
- Romans 8:23
- Romans 12:1
- Romans 12:4
- Romans 12:5
- 1 Corinthians 5:3
- 1 Corinthians 6:13
- 1 Corinthians 6:15
- 1 Corinthians 6:16
- 1 Corinthians 6:18
- 1 Corinthians 6:19
- 1 Corinthians 6:20
- 1 Corinthians 7:4
- 1 Corinthians 7:34
- 1 Corinthians 9:27
- 1 Corinthians 10:16
- 1 Corinthians 10:17
- 1 Corinthians 11:24
- 1 Corinthians 11:27
- 1 Corinthians 11:29
- 1 Corinthians 12:12
- 1 Corinthians 12:13
- 1 Corinthians 12:14
- 1 Corinthians 12:15
- 1 Corinthians 12:16
- 1 Corinthians 12:17
- 1 Corinthians 12:18
- 1 Corinthians 12:19
- 1 Corinthians 12:20
- 1 Corinthians 12:22
- 1 Corinthians 12:23
- 1 Corinthians 12:24
- 1 Corinthians 12:25
- 1 Corinthians 12:27
- 1 Corinthians 13:3
- 1 Corinthians 15:35
- 1 Corinthians 15:37
- 1 Corinthians 15:38
- 1 Corinthians 15:40
- 1 Corinthians 15:44
- 2 Corinthians 4:10
- 2 Corinthians 5:6
- 2 Corinthians 5:8
- 2 Corinthians 5:10
- 2 Corinthians 10:10
- 2 Corinthians 12:2
- 2 Corinthians 12:3
- Galatians 6:17
- Ephesians 1:23
- Ephesians 2:16
- Ephesians 4:4
- Ephesians 4:12
- Ephesians 4:16
- Ephesians 5:23
- Ephesians 5:28
- Ephesians 5:30
- Philippians 1:20
- Philippians 3:21
- Colossians 1:18
- Colossians 1:22
- Colossians 1:24
- Colossians 2:11
- Colossians 2:17
- Colossians 2:19
- Colossians 2:23
- Colossians 3:15
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23
- Hebrews 10:5
- Hebrews 10:10
- Hebrews 10:22
- Hebrews 13:3
- Hebrews 13:11
- James 2:16
- James 2:26
- James 3:2
- James 3:3
- James 3:6
- 1 Peter 2:24
- Jude 1:9
- Revelation 18:13