Words the Bible translates as body
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- sarxσάρξflesh: the soft tissue of a body, and by extension a human being in creaturely weakness, who one is by birth, and (in Paul) human life turned away from God and set against his Spirit.
- sōmaσῶμαthe body: a living creature's whole physical self, a frame of many parts working as one, and by extension the person or the community that frame stands for.
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- slaves: human beings counted and traded as property.
- the solid reality that casts a shadow: the thing itself, as against a mere outline of it.
- basarבָּשָׂרflesh: the soft tissue of a body, whether as the meat people eat or as the living skin and muscle of a person or animal
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- all flesh: every living creature, or all of humanity, taken together as one whole
- kin: a blood relative, the family bond named as shared flesh
- frail humanity: the human creature as weak, mortal, and small before God
- etsemעֶצֶםa bone, or the bones of a body taken together as its frame
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- a person's own body or self; one's own flesh and blood
- the very same; used to mark a thing as the exact one in view
- osphusὀσφῦςthe loins: the lower back and hips where a belt is fastened, and, in the same breath, the part of a man's body his children are said to come from.
- betenבֶּטֶןthe belly: the rounded inner cavity of the body, and by extension the womb, the appetite, and the deep inner self
- ptōmaπτῶμαa corpse: the body of someone struck down, spoken of as a fallen thing rather than as a person
- geviyyahגְּוִיָּהa body: the physical frame of a person or creature, whether still living or lying dead
- ḥalatsחָלָץthe loins: the lower back and hips, the place a belt is tied and the place a man's children are said to come from
- geshemגְּשֵׁםbodynot studied yet
- guphahגּוּפָהbodynot studied yet
- shorerשֹׁרֶרnavel: the small round hollow at the center of the abdomen, and the birth cord that once joined a child to its mother there
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