Sōma — G4983

Definition

neuter noun

the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively

1. the body both of men and of animals
1. as everywhere in Homer (who calls the living body δέμας and not infreqently in subsequently Greek writings, a dead body or corpse: universally, Luk 17:37; of a man, Mat 14:12 R G; ; Act 9:40; plural Joh 19:31; τό σῶμα τίνος, Mat 27:58; Mar 15:43; Luk 23:52; Luk 23:55; Joh 19:38; Joh 19:40; Joh 20:12; Jud 1:9; of the body of an animal offered in sacrifice, plural Heb 13:11
2. as in Greek writings from Hesiod down, the living body
3. Since according to ancient law in the ease of slaves the body was the chief thing taken into account, it is a usage of later Greek to call slaves simply σώματα
2. The name is transferred to the bodies of plants
3. tropically σῶμα is used of a (large or small) "number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were
4. ἡ σκιά and τό σῶμα are distinguished as the shadow and the thing itself which casts the shadow

Usually translated as

body, bodily, slave

Origin

from G4982

• sṓzō (G4982)

Occurrences

Sōma occurs 146 times in 122 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (12), Mark (5), Luke (11), John (5), Acts (1), Romans (13), 1 Corinthians (35), 2 Corinthians (7), Galatians (1), Ephesians (8), Philippians (2), Colossians (8), 1 Thessalonians (1), Hebrews (5), James (5), 1 Peter (1), Jude (1), Revelation (1)

• Matthew 5:29 — And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body (σῶμα) should be cast into hell.
• Matthew 5:30 — And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body (σῶμα) should be cast into hell.
• Matthew 6:22 — The light of the body (σώματος) is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
• Matthew 6:22 — The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body (σῶμα) shall be full of light.
• Matthew 6:23 — But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body (σῶμα) shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
• Matthew 6:25 — Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body (σώματι), what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
• Matthew 6:25 — Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body (σῶμα) than raiment?
• Matthew 10:28 — And fear not them which kill the body (σῶμα), but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
• Matthew 10:28 — And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body (σῶμα) in hell.
• Matthew 14:12 — And his disciples came, and took up the body (σῶμα), and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
• Matthew 26:12 — For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body (σώματος), she did it for my burial.
• Matthew 26:26 — And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body (σῶμα).
• Matthew 27:52 — And the graves were opened; and many bodies (σώματα) of the saints which slept arose,
• Matthew 27:58 — He went to Pilate, and begged the body (σῶμα) of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
• Matthew 27:58 — He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body (σῶμα) to be delivered.
• Matthew 27:59 — And when Joseph had taken the body (σῶμα), he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
• Mark 5:29 — And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body (σώματι) that she was healed of that plague.
• Mark 14:8 — She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body (σῶμα) to the burying.
• Mark 14:22 — And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body (σῶμα).
• Mark 15:43 — Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body (σῶμα) of Jesus.
• Mark 15:45 — And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body (σῶμα) to Joseph.
• Luke 11:34 — The light of the body (σώματος) is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
• Luke 11:34 — The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body (σῶμα) also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
• Luke 11:34 — The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body (σῶμα) also is full of darkness.
• Luke 11:36 — If thy whole body (σῶμα) therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
• Luke 12:4 — And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body (σῶμα), and after that have no more that they can do.
• Luke 12:22 — And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body (σώματι), what ye shall put on.
• Luke 12:23 — The life is more than meat, and the body (σῶμα) is more than raiment.
• Luke 17:37 — And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body (σῶμα) is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
• Luke 22:19 — And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body (σῶμα) which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
• Luke 23:52 — This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body (σῶμα) of Jesus.
• Luke 23:55 — And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body (σῶμα) was laid.
• Luke 24:3 — And they entered in, and found not the body (σῶμα) of the Lord Jesus.
• Luke 24:23 — And when they found not his body (σῶμα), they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
• John 2:21 — But he spake of the temple of his body (σώματος).
• John 19:31 — The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies (σώματα) should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
• John 19:38 — And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body (σῶμα) of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
• John 19:38 — And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body (σῶμα) of Jesus.
• John 19:40 — Then took they the body (σῶμα) of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
• John 20:12 — And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body (σῶμα) of Jesus had lain.
• Acts 9:40 — But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body (σῶμα) said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
• Romans 1:24 — Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies (σώματα) between themselves:
• Romans 4:19 — And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body (σῶμα) now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
• Romans 6:6 — Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body (σῶμα) of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
• Romans 6:12 — Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body (σώματι), that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• Romans 7:4 — Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body (σώματος) of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
• Romans 7:24 — O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body (σώματος) of this death?
• Romans 8:10 — And if Christ be in you, the body (σῶμα) is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
• Romans 8:11 — But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies (σώματα) by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
• Romans 8:13 — For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body (σώματος), ye shall live.