Words the Bible translates as dead body
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- 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.
+2 more meanings
- 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.
- nevelahנְבֵלָהa dead body: the lifeless corpse of an animal or person, treated as unclean
- ptōmaπτῶμαa corpse: the body of someone struck down, spoken of as a fallen thing rather than as a person
- pegerפֶּגֶרa corpse: a dead body left lying, whether of a person, an animal, or a lifeless idol
- geviyyahגְּוִיָּהa body: the physical frame of a person or creature, whether still living or lying dead
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