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 15:35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) will they come?”
1 Corinthians 15:37 And what you sow is not the body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
1 Corinthians 15:38 But God gives it a body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) as he has determined, and to each kind of seed its own body (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut).
1 Corinthians 15:40 And there are heavenly bodies (sōmata | σώματα | nom pl neut) and earthly bodies (sōmata | σώματα | nom pl neut); but the glory of heavenly bodies is of one kind and the glory of earthly bodies is of another.
1 Corinthians 15:44 it is sown a natural body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut), it is raised a spiritual body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut). If there is a natural body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut), there is also a spiritual body.
2 Corinthians 4:10 always carrying about in the body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our bodies (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut).
2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) we are away from the Lord,
2 Corinthians 5:8 Thus we are confident and would rather be away from the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) and at home with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be repaid according to what he has done while in the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut), whether good or bad.
2 Corinthians 10:10 For some are saying, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) presence is weak, and his rhetoric amounts to nothing.”
2 Corinthians 12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago — whether in the body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) I do not know or apart from the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) I do not know, only God knows — such a man was caught up to the third heaven.
2 Corinthians 12:3 And I know that this man — whether in the body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) or apart from the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) I do not know, only God knows —
Galatians 6:17 From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut).
Ephesians 1:23 which is his body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut), the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.
Ephesians 2:16 and to reconcile both to God in one body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) through the cross, having put the hostility to death in himself.
Ephesians 4:4 There is one body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) and one Spirit, just as you also were called to the one hope of your calling;
Ephesians 4:12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, to build up the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) of Christ,
Ephesians 4:16 from whom the whole body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut), joined and brought together by every supporting ligament, according to the working of each individual part, makes the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Ephesians 5:23 for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ also is the head of the church, and is himself the savior of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut).
Ephesians 5:28 In the same way husbands also should love their wives as their own bodies (sōmata | σώματα | acc pl neut). He who loves his wife loves himself,
Ephesians 5:30 since we are members of his body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut).
Philippians 1:20 It is my earnest expectation and hope that I will in no way be put to shame, but that with complete boldness, now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut), whether by life or by death.
Philippians 3:21 who will transform our lowly bodies (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) into the likeness of his glorious body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut), by the power that also enables him to subject all things to himself.
Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut), the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that he might be preeminent in everything. he preeminent
Colossians 1:22 he has now reconciled in Christ’s physical body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) physical Christ’s through his death, in order to present you holy, without blemish and beyond reproach in his sight his —

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