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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
σῶμα, -ματος, τό
Greek transliteration: 
sōma
Simplified transliteration: 
soma
Numbers
Strong's number: 
4983
GK Number: 
5393
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
142
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-3c(4)
Gloss: 

body, the mass of anything, usually a corporeal tissue, human, animal, or plant

Definition: 

body, the mass of anything, usually a corporeal tissue, human, animal, or plant, though it can also refer to a heavenly body; the church is said to be like a (human) body, emphasizing its essential unity with very important diversities of function within the unity.

the body, of an animal; a living body, Mt. 5:29, 30; 6:22, 23, 25; Jas. 3:3; a person, individual, 1 Cor. 6:16; a dead body; corpse, carcass, Mt. 14:12; 27:52, 58; Heb. 13:11; the human body considered as the seat and occasion of moral imperfection, as inducing to sin through its appetites and passions, Rom. 7:24; 8:13; genr. a body, a material substance, 1 Cor. 15:37, 38, 40; the substance, reality, as opposed to ἡ σκιά, Col. 2:17; in NT met., the aggregate body of believers, the body of the Church, Rom. 12:5; Col. 1:18

Greek-English Concordance for σῶμα

Matthew 5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away for it is better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away for it is better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) thrown into hell.
Matthew 6:22 “The lamp of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) is the eye. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) will be filled with light;
Matthew 6:23 but if your eye is evil, your whole body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) will be filled with darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I say to you, ‘Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut), what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) more than clothing?
Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who can kill the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) but cannot kill the soul. Rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) in hell.
Matthew 26:12 For by pouring this perfume on my body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut), she has prepared me for burial.
Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread; and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take, eat; this is my body.” (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut)
Matthew 27:52 the tombs were opened, and many bodies (sōmata | σώματα | nom pl neut) of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
Matthew 27:58 This man approached Pilate and asked for the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered that it be given to him.
Matthew 27:59 And Joseph took the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut), wrapped it in a clean linen shroud,
Mark 5:29 Immediately the flow of blood was dried up, and she knew in her body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) that she was healed of the affliction.
Mark 14:8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) beforehand for burial.
Mark 14:22 And while they were eating, he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them and said, “Take; this is my body.” (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut)
Mark 15:43 Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who also himself was expecting the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) of Jesus.
Luke 11:34 Your eye is the lamp of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut). When your eye is sound, then your whole body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) is full of light, but when it is diseased, then your body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) is full of darkness.
Luke 11:36 If then your whole body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) is full of light, having no part of it dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.”
Luke 12:4 “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who can kill the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut), and after that have nothing more that they can do.
Luke 12:22 He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut), what you will wear.
Luke 12:23 For life is more than food, and the body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) more than clothing.
Luke 17:37 Then the disciples said in response, “Where, Lord?” And he said to them, “Where the corpse (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”
Luke 22:19 Then taking bread and giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut), which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
Luke 23:52 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) of Jesus;
Luke 23:55 The women who had come with him from Galilee followed along behind and saw the tomb, and how his body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) was laid in it
Luke 24:3 and going inside they did not find the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) of the Lord Jesus.
Luke 24:23 and not finding his body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut), they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive.
John 2:21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut).
John 19:31 Then, since it was the day of Preparation, so that the bodies (sōmata | σώματα | nom pl neut) would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and their bodies taken down.
John 19:38 After this Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (though a secret one due to his fear of the Jews) asked Pilate if he could remove the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut).
John 19:40 So they took the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) of Jesus and wrapped it in strips of linen with the spices, in accordance with the Jewish custom for burial.
John 20:12 She saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and the other at the feet of the place where the body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) of Jesus had been lying.
Acts 9:40 But Peter put them all outside, and falling to his knees he prayed; then turning toward the dead body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut), he said, “Tabitha, get up!” And she opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.
Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that they dishonored their bodies (sōmata | σώματα | acc pl neut) among themselves.
Romans 4:19 Not being weak in faith, he considered his own body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
Romans 6:6 We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that the body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) of sin would be rendered powerless, so that we would no longer be enslaved by sin;
Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) so that you obey its desires.
Romans 7:4 So then, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) of Christ that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for God.
Romans 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) of death?
Romans 8:10 But if Christ is in you, although the body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies (sōmata | σώματα | acc pl neut) through his Spirit who lives in you.
Romans 8:13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will certainly die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut), you will live.
Romans 8:23 And not only this, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut).
Romans 12:1 I appeal you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies (sōmata | σώματα | acc pl neut) as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God — this is a reasonable act of worship for you.
Romans 12:4 For as in our one body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
Romans 12:5 so we who are many are one body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) in Christ, and individually members who belong to one another,
1 Corinthians 5:3 For though I am absent in body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut), I am present in spirit; and I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as though I were present.
1 Corinthians 6:13 “Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food” — and God will destroy both the one and the other. But the body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut);
1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies (sōmata | σώματα | nom pl neut) are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute is one body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) with her? For it says, “The two will become one flesh.”
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut), but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut).

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