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σῶμα G4983
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body (physical)

Senses
1. body (physical) The physical body of a human being or, by extension, a collective body (the church as the body of Christ). This is the dominant NT term for the material body, covering 142 occurrences across all inflectional forms — singular nominative/accusative/dative/genitive (131x) and plural nominative/accusative/genitive (11x). Used of the living body (Rom 12:1; 1 Cor 6:19-20), the dead body/corpse (Mt 27:52, 58-59), the resurrection body (1 Cor 15:35-44), the body of Christ as the church (Rom 12:5; 1 Cor 12:12-27; Eph 1:23; 4:4, 12, 16; Col 1:18, 24), and the eucharistic body (Mt 26:26; 1 Cor 11:24, 27, 29). Spanish 'cuerpo/cuerpos' is uniform; Hindi 'शरीर/शरीरों' consistently means body; Arabic 'جَسَدِ/أَجْسَادَ/أَجْسادٍ' are singular and broken plural of the same root ج-س-د; Korean '몸/몸들' adds the plural marker 들; Swahili 'mwili/miili' is the standard singular/plural pair. Number inflection does not constitute a distinct sense. 142×
BODY_HEALTH Body, Body Parts, and Body Products Body (Physical Form)
AR["الْجَسَدَ","الْجَسَدِ","جَسَدًا","جَسَدَ","جَسَدُ","جَسَدُكَ","جَسَدِ","جَسَدِكَ","جَسَدِكُم","جَسَدِها","جَسَدِي"]·ben["দেহ","দেহকে","দেহের","দেহের-জন্য","শরীর","শরীরে","শরীরের"]·DE["Leib"]·EN["body"]·FR["corps"]·heb["גּוּף","גּוּפִי","גּוּפוֹ","גוּפָהּ","הַ-גּוּף"]·HI["शरीर","शरीर-का","शरीर-के-लिए","शरीर-को","से"]·ID["tubuh","tubuhnya"]·IT["corpo"]·jav["awak","badan","badan,","layon","layon,"]·KO["몸","몸-을","몸에","몸을","몸의","몸이","몸이다"]·PT["corpo"]·RU["Тело","тела","тело","телом"]·ES["cuerpo"]·SW["miili","mwili","mwili,"]·TR["beden","bedeni","bedenim","bedenimi","bedenimin","bedenin","bedenini","bedeniniz","bedeniyle"]·urd["بدن","جسم","جسم-میں","جسم-پر","جسم-کا"]

BDB / Lexicon Reference
σῶμα, ατος, τό Refs 4th c.AD+ dative plural σωμάτεσι Refs 3rd c.BC+, body of man or beast, but in Refs 8th c.BC+, always dead body, corpse (whereas the living body is δέμας), ὥς τε λέων ἐχάρη μεγάλῳ ἐπὶ σώματι κύρσας Refs 8th c.BC+; ς. δὲ οἴκαδ᾽ ἐμὸν δόμεναι πάλιν Refs 8th c.BC+; so also in NT+8th c.BC+; νεκρὸν σ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; μέγιστον σ... σποδου, ={σ. μέγιστον νῦν σποδός ἐστι}, Refs 5th