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

1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, and you are not your own?
1 Corinthians 6:20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God with your body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut).
1 Corinthians 7:4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut), but the husband does. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut), but the wife does.
1 Corinthians 7:34 and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.
1 Corinthians 9:27 But I discipline my body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) and bring it into subjection, so that having preached to others I myself should not be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) of Christ?
1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut), for we all partake of the one loaf.
1 Corinthians 11:24 and after giving thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
1 Corinthians 11:27 Whoever, therefore, eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) and blood of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:29 For the one who eats and drinks without discerning the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) eats and drinks judgment on himself.
1 Corinthians 12:12 For just as the physical body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) is one yet has many members, and all the members of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut), though many, are one body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut), so also is the body of Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut), whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, and we were all imbued with one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:14 For indeed the body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) is not a single member, but many.
1 Corinthians 12:15 If the foot should say, “Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut).
1 Corinthians 12:16 And if the ear should say, “Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut).
1 Corinthians 12:17 If the whole body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
1 Corinthians 12:18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut), every one of them, just as he chose.
1 Corinthians 12:19 If they were all a single member, where would the body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) be?
1 Corinthians 12:20 But as it is, there are many members, but one body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut).
1 Corinthians 12:22 Quite the contrary, those members of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
1 Corinthians 12:23 and those members of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are treated with greater modesty,
1 Corinthians 12:24 whereas our presentable members have no such need. Instead, God has so arranged the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut), giving greater honor to the member that lacked it,
1 Corinthians 12:25 so that there would be no division in the body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut), but that the members would have the same care for one another.
1 Corinthians 12:27 Now you are Christ’s body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) and each of you is a member of it.
1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give away everything I own, and if I surrender my body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) to be burned, but do not have love, it benefits me nothing.

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