Vocabulary Form
σάρξ, σαρκός, ἡ
Definition

flesh, body

Erasmian
Modern
Root
σαρκ
Frequency
147
GK
4922
Cognates

A sarcophagus (sarkofavgoV) is a stone coffin. In Greece they were made of limestone, which was believed would consume, or "eat" (fagevw), the flesh.

Mnemonics

The great white shark tore into his flesh.

Mnemonic Singing

And when this flesh and heart shall fail,
and mortal life shall cease

Song

Biblical Concordance

Romans 1:3 the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem),
Romans 2:28 For that person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem).
Romans 3:20 So by the works of the law no flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) will be justified before him, because through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), has discovered about this?
Romans 6:19 (I am speaking in human terms because of your natural (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) limitations.) For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.
Romans 7:5 For while we were living in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death.
Romans 7:18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem); for I have the desire to do what is right, but I am unable to do it.
Romans 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) I serve the law of sin.
Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), God, by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) and as a sin offering, condemned sin in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem),
Romans 8:4 so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) have set their minds on the things of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), but those who live according to the Spirit have set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:6 To set the mind on the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) leads to death, but to set the mind on the Spirit brings life and peace,
Romans 8:7 because the mind set on the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) is hostile to God; it does not submit to the law of God; in fact, it cannot.
Romans 8:8 Those controlled by the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) cannot please God.
Romans 8:9 You, however, are not controlled by the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) but by the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Romans 8:12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), to live according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem),
Romans 8:13 for if you live according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), you will certainly die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 9:3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed, cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem),
Romans 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them by human (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) descent (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 9:8 This means it is not the children of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
Romans 11:14 if somehow I could provoke my own countrymen (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) to jealousy and save some of them.
Romans 13:14 Rather, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the sinful (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) nature to gratify its desires.
1 Corinthians 1:26 Consider your calling, brothers: according to worldly (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) standards (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), not many of you were wise, not many were influential, not many were of noble birth.
1 Corinthians 1:29 so that no one can boast in the presence of God.
1 Corinthians 5:5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), so that the spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.