Strong's #4561: sarx (pronounced sarx)
probably from the base of 4563; flesh (as stripped of the skin), i.e. (strictly) the meat of an animal (as food), or (by extension) the body (as opposed to the soul (or spirit), or as the symbol of what is external, or as the means of kindred), or (by implication) human nature (with its frailties (physically or morally) and passions), or (specially), a human being (as such):--carnal(-ly, + -ly minded), flesh(-ly).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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sarx
1) flesh (the soft substance of the living body, which covers the bones and is permeated with blood) of both man and beasts
2) the body
2a) the body of a man
2b) used of natural or physical origin, generation or relationship
2b1) born of natural generation
2c) the sensuous nature of man, "the animal nature"
2c1) without any suggestion of depravity
2c2) the animal nature with cravings which incite to sin
2c3) the physical nature of man as subject to suffering
3) a living creature (because possessed of a body of flesh) whether man or beast
4) the flesh, denotes mere human nature, the earthly nature of man apart from divine influence, and therefore prone to sin and opposed to God
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: probably from the base of G4563
Citing in TDNT: 7:98, 1000
Usage:
This word is used 151 times:
Matthew 16:17: "thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed"
Matthew 19:5: "and they twain shall be one flesh"
Matthew 19:6: "twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together,"
Matthew 24:22: "days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake"
Matthew 26:41: "is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Mark 10:8: "they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain,"
Mark 10:8: "twain, but one flesh."
Mark 13:20: "had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but"
Mark 14:38: "is ready, but the flesh is weak."
Luke 3:6: "And all flesh shall see the salvation of God."
Luke 24:39: "a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see"
John 1:13: "nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,"
John 1:14: "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,"
John 3:6: "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born"
John 3:6: "the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the"
John 6:51: "I will give is my flesh, which I will give"
John 6:52: "this man give us his flesh to eat?"
John 6:53: "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and"
John 6:54: "Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath"
John 6:55: "For my flesh is meat indeed, and my"
John 6:56: "He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth"
John 6:63: "spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the"
John 8:15: "judge after the flesh; I judge no man."
John 17:2: "him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life"
Acts 2:17: "Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and"
Acts 2:26: "was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in"
Acts 2:30: "of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on"
Acts 2:31: "hell, neither his flesh did see corruption."
Romans 1:3: "the seed of David according to the flesh;"
Romans 2:28: "neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:"
Romans 3:20: "the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:"
Romans 4:1: "our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?"
Romans 6:19: "of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your"
Romans 7:5: "we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which"
Romans 7:18: "(that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for"
Romans 7:25: "the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
Romans 8:1: "who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."
Romans 8:3: "it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son"
Romans 8:3: "in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned"
Romans 8:3: "sin in the flesh:"
Romans 8:4: "who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."
Romans 8:5: "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh;"
Romans 8:5: "do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit"
Romans 8:6: "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life"
Romans 8:7: "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for"
Romans 8:8: "So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God."
Romans 8:9: "are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that"
Romans 8:12: "we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the"
Romans 8:12: "flesh, to live after the flesh."
Romans 8:13: "if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if"
