Words the Bible translates as flesh
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 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.
- 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
- she'erשְׁאֵרflesh: the meat of a living body, whether the food it provides or one's own physical frame
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- a blood relative: a member of one's own family, near of kin
- besharבְּשַׁרfleshnot studied yet
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