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σύσσωμ-ος G4954
Adj-ANP  |  1× in 1 sense
fellow body members, united in one body (corporate solidarity)
Paul proclaims that Gentiles are 'fellow body members' with Jews in Christ, using a rare compound adjective to stress corporate unity. The term appears only in Ephesians 3:6, intensifying the body metaphor—not merely included but organically joined. Spanish 'miembros del mismo cuerpo' and German 'Mitleib' (co-body) preserve the anatomical imagery, essential to Paul's vision of the church as a single organism transcending ethnic division, where Gentiles are not grafted onto a Jewish body but co-constitutive members of Christ's body.

Senses
1. sense 1 Eph 3:6 reveals the mystery that Gentiles are 'members of the same body' as Jews, co-heirs and co-sharers in Christ. The term's anatomical force resists hierarchical inclusion—Gentiles aren't appendages but integral members. Multilingual glosses ('fellow body,' 'miembros del mismo cuerpo') stress the organic equality, central to Paul's Ephesian ecclesiology of radical unity in the one body of Christ.
BODY_HEALTH Body, Body Parts, and Body Products Flesh and Body
AR["شُرَكاءَ-في-الجَسَدِ"]·ben["সহশরীর"]·DE["Mitleib"]·EN["fellow-body"]·FR["σύσσωμα"]·heb["שֻׁתָּפֵי-גוּף"]·HI["सह-शरेएर"]·ID["satu-tubuh,"]·IT["sussōma"]·jav["sesami-sarira,"]·KO["함께-한-몸,"]·PT["membros-do-mesmo-corpo,"]·RU["сотелесниками,"]·ES["miembros-del-mismo-cuerpo"]·SW["mwili-mmoja"]·TR["ortak-bedenli"]·urd["ہم-بدن"]

Related Senses
H7200 1. Qal: to see, perceive (1257×)G4771 2. you (singular address) (1077×)H8085 1. Qal: hear, perceive aurally (921×)H0859a 1. you (2nd person masculine singular pronoun) (743×)H0398 1. eat (consume food) (697×)H4191 1. die (Qal: natural/general death) (645×)G3708 1. see, perceive visually (419×)G0191 1. hear, perceive sound (360×)H???? 3. (352×)G3708 2. behold, look (exclamatory) (256×)H7272 1. foot (body part) (236×)H8354 1. drink, consume liquid (209×)H3205 1. Qal active: bear/give birth (female subject) (204×)H3205 2. Qal active: beget/father (male subject) (198×)H2421 1. Qal: live, be alive (177×)H8085 2. Qal: listen, heed, pay attention (172×)H2416a 1. alive, living (state/attribute) (146×)H2416e 1. life, lifespan, lifetime (145×)G2198 1. be alive, have life (133×)H8193 1. lip, lips (body part) (123×)

BDB / Lexicon Reference
σύσσωμ-ος, ον, united in one body, NT