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:
Romans 9:3: "my kinsmen according to the flesh:"
Romans 9:5: "of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all,"
Romans 9:8: "They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God:"
Romans 11:14: "If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of"
Romans 13:14: "not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts"
1 Corinthians 1:26: "many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not"
1 Corinthians 1:29: "That no flesh should glory in his presence."
1 Corinthians 5:5: "for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved"
1 Corinthians 6:16: "saith he, shall be one flesh."
1 Corinthians 7:28: "shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you."
1 Corinthians 10:18: "Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the"
1 Corinthians 15:39: "All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one"
1 Corinthians 15:39: "is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh"
1 Corinthians 15:39: "but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh"
1 Corinthians 15:39: "of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another"
1 Corinthians 15:50: "I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot"
2 Corinthians 1:17: "or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with"
2 Corinthians 4:11: "might be made manifest in our mortal flesh."
2 Corinthians 5:16: "know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known"
2 Corinthians 5:16: "though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know"
2 Corinthians 7:1: "from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness"
2 Corinthians 7:5: "into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but"
2 Corinthians 10:2: "as if we walked according to the flesh."
2 Corinthians 10:3: "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:"
2 Corinthians 10:3: "we do not war after the flesh:"
2 Corinthians 11:18: "glory after the flesh, I will glory also."
2 Corinthians 12:7: "to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet"
Galatians 1:16: "immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:"
Galatians 2:16: "the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
Galatians 2:20: "I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of"
Galatians 3:3: "in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?"
Galatians 4:13: "through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first."
Galatians 4:14: "which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected;"
Galatians 4:23: "the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of"
Galatians 4:29: "then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit,"
Galatians 5:13: "for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve"
Galatians 5:16: "ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."
Galatians 5:17: "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and"
Galatians 5:17: "Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other:"
Galatians 5:19: "the works of the flesh are manifest, which are"
Galatians 5:24: "that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and"
Galatians 6:8: "he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap"
Galatians 6:8: "flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth"
Galatians 6:12: "desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised;"
Galatians 6:13: "they may glory in your flesh."
Ephesians 2:3: "the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the"
Ephesians 2:3: "the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and"
Ephesians 2:11: "being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by"
Ephesians 2:11: "that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;"
Ephesians 2:15: "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law"
