σῶμα

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body

σῶμα , -τος, τό, [in LXX for גְּוִיָּה ,בָּשָׂר, etc., and for Aram. נְבֵלָה ;] a body . __1. Prop., of the human body, __(a) as always in Hom. (opposite to δέμας), of the dead body: Mat.27:58, 59 Mrk.15:43 , al.; __(b) of the living body : Luk.11:34 , 1Co.6:13 , al.; ἐν σ. εἶναι, Heb.13:3; as the instrument of the soul, τὰ διὰ τοῦ σ., 2Co.5:10; opposite to πνεῦμα, Rom.8:10 , 1Co.5:3 7:4 , Jas.2:26 ; to ψυχή, Mat.6:25 10:28 , Luk.12:22 (cf. Wis.1:1 , al.); to τὸ π. καὶ ἡ ψ., 1Th.5:23; σ. ψυχικόν, opposite to σ. πνευματικόν, 1Co.15:44; ὁ ναὸς τοῦ σ. αὐτοῦ (genitive epexeg.), Jhn.2:21; τὸ σ. τ. ταπεινώσεως (Hebraistic "genitive of definition"; M, Pr. , 73f.; Bl., §35, 5), opposite to τὸ σ. τ. δοξῆς αὐτοῦ, Php.3:21; similarly, τὸ σ. τ. σαρκός, Col.1:22; σ. τοῦ θανάτου (subject to death), Rom.7:24; σ. τ. ἁμαρτίας, Rom.6:6; __(with) periphr., ἀνθρώπου, then absol., σῶμα (Soph., Xen., al.), a person , and in later writers (Polyb., al.), a slave : Rev.18:13 (cf. MM, i, ii, xxiv; Deiss., BS , 160). __2. Of the bodies of animals : living, Jas.3:3; dead, Heb.13:11 ( Exo.29:14 , al.). __3. Of inanimate objects (cf. Eng. "heavenly bodies"): 1Co.15:37, 38 40 (Diod., al.). __4. Of any corporeal substance (Plat., al.): opposite to σκιά, Col.2:17. Metaphorical, of a number of persons united by a common bond; in NT, of the Church as the spiritual body of Christ: Rom.12:5 , 1Co.10:16, 17 12:13, 27 , Eph.1:23 2:16 4:4, 12, 16 5:23, 30 , Col.1:18, 24 2:19 3:15 ; ἓν σ. κ. ἓν πνεῦμα, Eph.4:4. (AS)