G4983 – soma – σῶμα – a body
- Strong’s ID:
- G4983
- Greek Word:
- σῶμα
- Transliteration:
- soma
- Pronunciation:
- so’-mah
- Part of Speech:
- noun neuter
- Usage Count:
- 146
- Search:
- Find “soma” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
a body
Word Picture:
Contrasting this with G4151 and G4983, we are considered to be body, soul (“psuche”), and spirit (“pneuma”). While the body cannot live without the spirit (cf. James 2:26), Jesus also said not to fear those that can only kill the body and not the soul, but God who is able to destroy soul and body in Hell (cf. Matthew 10:28), which comes after their bodily resurrection (cf. Revelation 20:12–15).
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G4982; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively:—bodily, body, slave.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) the body both of men or animals
1a) a dead body or corpse
1b) the living body
1b1) of animals
2) the bodies of planets and of stars (heavenly bodies)
3) is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body
3a) so in the NT of the church
4) that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.