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Strong's #4983: soma (pronounced so'-mah)

from 4982; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively:--bodily, body, slave.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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sōma

1) the body both of men or animals

1a) a dead body or corpse

1b) the living body

1b1) of animals

2) the bodies of planets and of stars (heavenly bodies)

3) is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body

3a) so in the NT of the church

4) that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G4982

Citing in TDNT: 7:1024, 1140




Usage:

This word is used 148 times:

1 Corinthians 15:44: "body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and"
1 Corinthians 15:44: "body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."
1 Corinthians 15:44: "and there is a spiritual body."
2 Corinthians 4:10: "bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord"
2 Corinthians 4:10: "might be made manifest in our body."
2 Corinthians 5:6: "whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:"
2 Corinthians 5:8: "to be absent from the body, and to be present with the"
2 Corinthians 5:10: "may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether"
2 Corinthians 10:10: "they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and"
2 Corinthians 12:2: "years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out"
2 Corinthians 12:2: "I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God"
2 Corinthians 12:3: "a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body,"
2 Corinthians 12:3: "or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)"
Galatians 6:17: "I bear in my body the marks of the"
Ephesians 1:23: "Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all"
Ephesians 2:16: "unto God in one body by the cross, having slain"
Ephesians 4:4: "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in"
Ephesians 4:12: "for the edifying of the body of Christ:"
Ephesians 4:16: "whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by"
Ephesians 4:16: "part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself"
Ephesians 5:23: "is the savior of the body."
Ephesians 5:28: "wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth"
Ephesians 5:30: "we are members of his body, of his flesh, and"
Philippians 1:20: "shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or"
Philippians 3:21: "shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his"
Philippians 3:21: "like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby"
Colossians 1:18: "the head of the body, the church: who is"
Colossians 1:22: "In the body of his flesh through death, to present"
Colossians 1:24: "in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the"
Colossians 2:11: "in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh"
Colossians 2:17: "of things to come; but the body is of Christ."
Colossians 2:19: "which all the body by joints and bands"
Colossians 2:23: "and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any"
Colossians 3:15: "ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful."
1 Thessalonians 5:23: "and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the"
Hebrews 10:5: "thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:"
Hebrews 10:10: "the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once"
Hebrews 10:22: "an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
Hebrews 13:3: "yourselves also in the body."
Hebrews 13:11: "For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought"
James 2:16: "not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?"
James 2:26: "For as the body without the spirit is dead,"
James 3:2: "to bridle the whole body."
James 3:3: "we turn about their whole body."
James 3:6: "that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course"
1 Peter 2:24: "sins in his own body on the tree, that"
Jude 1:9: "he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against"
Revelation 18:13: "and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men."









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