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

1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For it says, “The two will become one flesh.” (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem)
1 Corinthians 7:28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. However those who do marry will have worldly (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) trouble, and I am trying to spare you.
1 Corinthians 10:18 Consider Israel according to the flesh: (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?
1 Corinthians 15:39 Not all flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) is the same; people have one kind, animals another, birds another, fish another.
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I declare, brothers, that flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
2 Corinthians 1:17 Therefore when I was planning this, I was not capricious, was I? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), so that with me it would be “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?
2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are constantly being handed over to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem).
2 Corinthians 5:16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem). Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), yet now we regard him in that way no longer.
2 Corinthians 7:1 Since then we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 7:5 For even when we came to Macedonia, our bodies (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) had no rest, but on all sides we were distressed — from the outside came conflicts, from within there were fears.
2 Corinthians 10:2 I ask that when I am present I may not have to be “bold,” with such a confidence as I expect I will dare to use against those who think that we are walking according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem).
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), we are not waging war according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem),
2 Corinthians 11:18 Since there are many who are boasting according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), I too will boast.
2 Corinthians 12:7 especially because of the extraordinary character of my revelations. Therefore in order that I should not become conceited, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not become conceited.
Galatians 1:16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult with flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) and blood,
Galatians 2:16 yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, since no one will be justified by the works of the law.
Galatians 2:20 and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, would you now attain your goal by the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem)?
Galatians 4:13 You know that it was due to a physical (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) infirmity that I preached the gospel to you at first;
Galatians 4:14 and though my condition (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me, but you welcomed me as an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4:23 The son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), but the son by the free woman was born as the result of promise.
Galatians 4:29 But just as at that time the one who was born according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) persecuted the one who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), but through love serve one another.
Galatians 5:16 So I say, live by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem).
Galatians 5:17 For the desires of the flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem); for these are opposed to one another, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.