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Strong's G4983 σῶμα (soma)

Soma means “body” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4983 — mattanyah (“Mattaniah”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4983
Language Greek
Linked Usages 241
Books 48

Strong's G4983 Quick Answer

Strong's G4983 σῶμα (soma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. soma (so`-mah) n. 1. the body (as a sound whole) {used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively} It has 241 linked Bible usages across 48 books. Visible English usage signals include body. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
soma (so`-mah) n. 1. the body (as a sound whole) {used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively}
Usage
241 linked usages
Books
48 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
body

Meaning and Definition

soma (so`-mah) n. 1. the body (as a sound whole) {used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively} [from G4982] KJV: bodily, body, slave Root(s): G4982

Original Word
σῶμα
Transliteration
soma
Derivation
Root: σώζω R1: 4982
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4983. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

body

Usage: 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)

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How Strong's G4983 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render soma, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

body Matthew 5:29 49×

How Strong's G4983 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 122 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4983 (σῶμα) appears 127 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4983 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4983 in the New Testament

122 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 5:29 KJV

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matthew 5:30 KJV

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matthew 6:22 KJV

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Strong's G4983 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

65 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 15:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram sat down by them.

Genesis 34:29 Septuagint / Brenton

And they took captive all the persons of them, and all their store, and their wives, and plundered both whatever things there were in the city, and whatever things there were in the houses.

Genesis 36:6 Septuagint / Brenton

And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and all his possessions, and all his cattle, and all that he had gotten, and all things whatsoever he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and Esau went forth from the land of Canaan, from the face of his brother Jacob.

Strong's G4983 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

51 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G4983 in 1 Enoch

3 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4983.

Genesis 15:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram sat down by them.
Genesis 34:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they took captive all the persons of them, and all their store, and their wives, and plundered both whatever things there were in the city, and whatever things there were in the houses.
Genesis 36:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and all his possessions, and all his cattle, and all that he had gotten, and all things whatsoever he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and Esau went forth from the land of Canaan, from the face of his brother Jacob.
Genesis 47:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph gave provision to his father, and his brethren, and to all the house of his father, corn for each person.
Genesis 47:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And that year passed, and they came to him in the second year, and said to him, Must we then be consumed from before our lord? for if our money has failed, and our possessions, and our cattle, brought to thee our lord, and there has not been left to us before our lord more than our own bodies and our land, we are indeed destitute.
Leviticus 6:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall put on the linen tunic, and he shall put the linen drawers on his body; and shall take away that which has been thoroughly burned, which the fire shall have consumed, even the whole burnt offering from the altar, and he shall put it near the altar.
Leviticus 14:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass on the seventh day, he shall shave off all his hair, his head and his beard, and his eyebrows, even all his hair shall he shave; and he shall wash his garments, and wash his body with water, and shall be clean.
Leviticus 15:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatever man shall have an issue out of his body, his issue is unclean.
Leviticus 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the law of his uncleanness; whoever has a gonorrhea out of his body, this is his uncleanness in him by reason of the issue, by which his body is affected through the issue: all the days of the issue of his body, by which his body is affected through the issue, there is his uncleanness.
Leviticus 15:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whomsoever he that has the issue shall touch, if he have not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if he that has the issue should be cleansed of his issue, then shall he number to himself seven days for his purification; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be clean.
Leviticus 15:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the man whose seed of copulation shall happen to go forth from him, shall then wash his whole body, and shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman whosoever shall have an issue of blood, when her issue shall be in her body, shall be seven days in her separation; everyone that touches her shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whosoever shall touch her bed shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every one that touches it shall be unclean; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean till evening.
Leviticus 16:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall put on the consecrated linen tunic, and he shall have on his flesh the linen drawers, and shall gird himself with a linen girdle, and shall put on the linen cap, they are holy garments; and he shall bathe all his body in water, and shall put them on.
Leviticus 16:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall bathe his body in water in the holy place, and shall put on his raiment, and shall go out and offer the whole burnt offering for himself and the whole burnt offering for the people: and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and for the people, as for the priests.
Leviticus 16:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he that sends forth the goat that has been set apart to be let go, shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterward shall enter into the camp.
Leviticus 16:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he that burns them shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterward he shall enter into the camp.
Leviticus 17:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if he do not wash his garments, and do not bathe his body in water, then shall he bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 19:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall not make cuttings in your body for a dead body, and ye shall not inscribe on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 22:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
whatsoever soul shall touch them shall be unclean until evening; he shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water,
Numbers 8:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thus shalt thou perform their purification: thou shalt sprinkle them with water of purification, and a razor shall come upon the whole of their body, and they shall wash their garments, and shall be clean.
Numbers 19:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterward he shall go into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean till evening.
Numbers 19:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he that burns her shall wash his garments, and bathe his body, and shall be unclean till evening.
Deuteronomy 21:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but ye shall by all means bury it in that day; for everyone that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and ye shall by no means defile the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 23:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass toward evening he shall wash his body with water, and when the sun has gone down, he shall go into the camp.
Joshua 8:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he hanged the king of Ai on a gallows; and he remained on the tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones until this day.
1 Kingdoms 31:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they set up his armor at the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
1 Kingdoms 31:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they rose up, even every man of might, and marched all night, and took the body of Saul and the body of Jonathan his son from the wall of Beth-shan; and they bring them to Jabesh, and burn them there.
3 Kingdoms 13:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but hast returned, and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he spoke to thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread, and shalt not drink water; therefore thy body shall in nowise enter into the sepulcher of thy fathers.
3 Kingdoms 13:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And a lion found him in the way, and slew him; and his body was cast out in the way, and the ass was standing by it, and the lion also was standing by the body.
3 Kingdoms 13:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he went and found the body cast in the way, and the ass and the lion were standing by the body: and the lion had not devoured the body of the man of God, and had not torn the ass.
3 Kingdoms 13:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on his ass; and the prophet brought him back to his city, to bury him in his own tomb,
3 Kingdoms 20:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And because of the word, Ahab was pierced with sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and rent his garment, and girded sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Naboth the Jezreelite, and went his way.
4 Kingdoms 19:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass at night that the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they rose early in the morning, and, behold, these were all dead corpses.
1 Chronicles 10:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the mighty men rose up from Gilead, and they took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
1 Chronicles 28:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David assembled all the chief men of Israel, the chief of the judges, and all the chief men of the courses of attendance on the person of the king, and the captains of thousands and hundreds, and the treasurers, and the lords of his substance, and of all the king’s property, and of his sons, together with the eunuchs, and the mighty men, and the warriors of the army, at Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 9:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Nehemiah 9:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Esther 9:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he permitted it to be so done; and he gave up to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Haman to hang.
Job 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There the ungodly have burned out the fury of rage; There the wearied in body rest.
Job 6:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, Whose violence drinks up my blood: Whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.
Job 7:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And my body is covered with loathsome worms; And I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.
Job 13:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, And your body like a body of clay.
Job 20:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let the arrow pierce through his body; And let the stars be against his dwelling place: Let terrors come upon him.
Job 33:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
To turn a man from unrighteousness, And he delivers his body from a fall.
Job 33:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He will support him, that he should not perish, And will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; And he will fill his bones with marrow.
Job 36:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The ancient heavens shall flow, And the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: And they know the order of rest. Yet by all these things thy understanding is not astonished, Neither is thy mind disturbed in thy body.
Job 40:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him once, Remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; And let it not be done anymore.
Job 41:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The flesh also of his body is joined together: If one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved.
Proverbs 3:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then shall there be health to thy body, And good keeping to thy bones.
Proverbs 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou repent at last, When the flesh of thy body is consumed,
Proverbs 11:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A merciful man does good to his own soul: But the merciless destroys his own body.
Isaiah 37:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they arose in the morning and found all these bodies dead.
Ezekiel 1:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the four had their wings spread out above; each one had two joined to one another, and two covered their bodies.
Ezekiel 1:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their wings were spread out under the firmament, reaching one to the other; two wings to each, covering their bodies.
Ezekiel 23:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore receive thou the reward of thine ungodliness and thy fornication.
Daniel 3:94 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and perceived that the fire had not had power against their bodies, and the hair of their head was not burned, and their coats were not scorched, nor was the smell of fire upon them.
Daniel 3:95 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants, because they trusted in him; and they have changed the king’s word, and delivered their bodies to be burned, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
Daniel 4:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven forth from men, and he ate grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hairs were grown like lions’ hairs, and his nails as birds’ claws.
Daniel 5:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he was driven forth from men; and his heart was given him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and they fed him with grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the most high God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whomsoever he shall please.
Daniel 7:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke, until the wild beast was slain and destroyed, and his body given to be burned with fire.
Daniel 10:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and his body was as Tharsis, and his face was as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his legs as the appearance of shining brass, and the voice of his words as the voice of a multitude.
Nahum 3:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and of the mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies
Matthew 5:29 New Testament, KJV
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 5:30 New Testament, KJV
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 6:22 New Testament, KJV
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Matthew 6:23 New Testament, KJV
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 6:25 New Testament, KJV
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Matthew 10:28 New Testament, KJV
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 14:12 New Testament, KJV
And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Matthew 26:12 New Testament, KJV
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
Matthew 26:26 New Testament, KJV
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
Matthew 27:52 New Testament, KJV
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Matthew 27:58 New Testament, KJV
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
Matthew 27:59 New Testament, KJV
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
Mark 5:29 New Testament, KJV
And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
Mark 14:8 New Testament, KJV
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Mark 14:22 New Testament, KJV
And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
Mark 15:43 New Testament, KJV
Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
Mark 15:45 New Testament, KJV
And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
Luke 11:34 New Testament, KJV
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Luke 11:36 New Testament, KJV
If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
Luke 12:4 New Testament, KJV
And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luke 12:22 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
Luke 12:23 New Testament, KJV
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Luke 17:37 New Testament, KJV
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Luke 22:19 New Testament, KJV
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Luke 23:52 New Testament, KJV
This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Luke 23:55 New Testament, KJV
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
Luke 24:3 New Testament, KJV
And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
Luke 24:23 New Testament, KJV
And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
John 2:21 New Testament, KJV
But he spake of the temple of his body.
John 19:31 New Testament, KJV
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
John 19:38 New Testament, KJV
And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
John 19:40 New Testament, KJV
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
John 20:12 New Testament, KJV
And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
Acts 9:40 New Testament, KJV
But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Romans 1:24 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 4:19 New Testament, KJV
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
Romans 6:6 New Testament, KJV
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Romans 6:12 New Testament, KJV
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Romans 7:4 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Romans 7:24 New Testament, KJV
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans 8:10 New Testament, KJV
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Romans 8:11 New Testament, KJV
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Romans 8:13 New Testament, KJV
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Romans 8:23 New Testament, KJV
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Romans 12:1 New Testament, KJV
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 12:4 New Testament, KJV
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
Romans 12:5 New Testament, KJV
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
1 Corinthians 5:3 New Testament, KJV
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
1 Corinthians 6:13 New Testament, KJV
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:15 New Testament, KJV
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
1 Corinthians 6:16 New Testament, KJV
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:18 New Testament, KJV
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:19 New Testament, KJV
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 6:20 New Testament, KJV
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Corinthians 7:4 New Testament, KJV
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4983, grouped by book.

Genesis 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 17 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 12 usages, New Testament
Mark 5 usages, New Testament
Luke 11 usages, New Testament
John 5 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 13 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 35 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 7 usages, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
Ephesians 8 usages, New Testament
Philippians 2 usages, New Testament
Colossians 8 usages, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 5 usages, New Testament
James 5 usages, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Jude 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 12 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 13 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 11 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 152 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 3 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G4983 FAQ

What does soma (σῶμα) mean?

Soma (Strong's G4983) is a Greek word most simply glossed "body". soma (so`-mah) n. 1. the body (as a sound whole) {used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively}

How many times is soma (σῶμα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 241 linked usages for Strong's G4983 across 48 books.

Where can I study soma (σῶμα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4983 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate soma (σῶμα)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as body. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4983 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 65 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 51 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 3 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4983, with linked reader references where each row is available.