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σῶμα
sōma · Greek · Strong's G4983 · 141 occurrences
The KJV renders 10 different Hebrew and Greek words as “body”
What it means
the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively
from G4982 (σώζω);
How the KJV renders it
bodily, body, slave
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“body”
“bodily”
also renders sōmatikós (G4984), sōmatikōs (G4985)
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Where it appears
141 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 5:3 · N-DSN
For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.
1 Corinthians 6:13 · N-DSN
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:15 · N-NPN
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
1 Corinthians 6:16 · N-NSN
Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
1 Corinthians 6:18 · N-ASN
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:19 · N-NSN
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 6:20 N-DSN1 Corinthians 7:4 N-GSN1 Corinthians 7:34 N-DSN1 Corinthians 9:27 N-ASN1 Corinthians 10:16 N-GSN1 Corinthians 10:17 N-NSN1 Corinthians 11:24 N-NSN1 Corinthians 11:27 N-GSN1 Corinthians 11:29 N-ASN1 Corinthians 12:12 N-GSN1 Corinthians 12:13 N-ASN1 Corinthians 12:14 N-NSN1 Corinthians 12:15 N-GSN1 Corinthians 12:16 N-GSN1 Corinthians 12:17 N-NSN1 Corinthians 12:18 N-DSN1 Corinthians 12:19 N-NSN1 Corinthians 12:20 N-NSN1 Corinthians 12:22 N-GSN1 Corinthians 12:23 N-GSN1 Corinthians 12:24 N-ASN1 Corinthians 12:25 N-DSN1 Corinthians 12:27 N-NSN1 Corinthians 13:3 N-ASN1 Corinthians 15:35 N-DSN1 Corinthians 15:37 N-ASN1 Corinthians 15:38 N-ASN1 Corinthians 15:40 N-NPN1 Corinthians 15:44 N-NSN1 Peter 2:24 N-DSN1 Thessalonians 5:23 N-NSN2 Corinthians 4:10 N-DPN2 Corinthians 5:6 N-DSN2 Corinthians 5:8 N-GSN2 Corinthians 5:10 N-GSN2 Corinthians 10:10 N-GSN2 Corinthians 12:2 N-DSN2 Corinthians 12:3 N-DSNActs 9:40 N-ASNColossians 1:18 N-GSNColossians 1:22 N-DSNColossians 1:24 N-GSNColossians 2:11 N-GSNColossians 2:17 N-NSNColossians 2:19 N-NSNColossians 2:23 N-GSNColossians 3:15 N-DSNEphesians 1:23 N-NSNEphesians 2:16 N-DSNEphesians 4:4 N-NSNEphesians 4:12 N-GSNEphesians 4:16 N-GSNEphesians 5:23 N-GSNEphesians 5:28 N-APN
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