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:
Ephesians 5:29: "ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth"
Ephesians 5:30: "body, of his flesh, and of his bones."
Ephesians 5:31: "and they two shall be one flesh."
Ephesians 6:5: "be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling,"
Ephesians 6:12: "wrestle not against flesh and blood, but"
Philippians 1:22: "if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor:"
Philippians 1:24: "to abide in the flesh is more needful for you."
Philippians 3:3: "and have no confidence in the flesh."
Philippians 3:4: "have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust"
Philippians 3:4: "thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:"
Colossians 1:22: "the body of his flesh through death, to present you"
Colossians 1:24: "of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is"
Colossians 2:1: "my face in the flesh;"
Colossians 2:5: "though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with"
Colossians 2:11: "of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:"
Colossians 2:13: "the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven"
Colossians 2:18: "he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,"
Colossians 2:23: "honor to the satisfying of the flesh."
Colossians 3:22: "all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as"
1 Timothy 3:16: "God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen"
Philemon 1:16: "unto thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord?"
Hebrews 2:14: "as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also"
Hebrews 5:7: "the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and"
Hebrews 9:10: "divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time"
Hebrews 9:13: "the purifying of the flesh:"
Hebrews 10:20: "veil, that is to say, his flesh;"
Hebrews 12:9: "we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not"
James 5:3: "and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for"
1 Peter 1:24: "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory"
1 Peter 3:18: "to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:"
1 Peter 3:21: "(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience"
1 Peter 4:1: "hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the"
1 Peter 4:1: "for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;"
1 Peter 4:2: "rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will"
1 Peter 4:6: "according to men in the flesh, but live according to God"
2 Peter 2:10: "chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and"
2 Peter 2:18: "they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live"
1 John 2:16: "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the"
1 John 4:2: "that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:"
1 John 4:3: "Christ is come in the flesh is not of God:"
2 John 1:7: "Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and"
Jude 1:7: "and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering"
Jude 1:8: "these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and"
Jude 1:23: "spotted by the flesh."
Revelation 17:16: "and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with"
Revelation 19:18: "That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and"
Revelation 19:18: "the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men,"
Revelation 19:18: "the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses,"
Revelation 19:18: "the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on"
Revelation 19:18: "on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond,"
