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Name of God’s Son

ΣΑΡΚΙΝΗΣ, σαρκινης

SARKINĒS, sarkinēs

Sounds Like: sar-KEE-nays

Translations: fleshly, carnal, made of flesh, of flesh

From the root: ΣΑΡΞ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This adjective describes something that is made of flesh, or pertains to the flesh. It can refer to something literally composed of flesh, or it can be used metaphorically to describe something that is earthly, human, or governed by natural human desires rather than spiritual ones, often carrying a negative connotation of being 'carnal'.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine or Feminine

Strong’s number: G4561 (Lookup on BibleHub)


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Codex Sinaiticus
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΑΡΞ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

  • ΣΑΠΡΚΑ — flesh, a flesh, body, human nature, carnal nature
  • ΣΑΡΚ — flesh, a flesh, body, human nature, mankind, a human being
  • ΣΑΡΚΑ — flesh, a flesh, body, a body, humanity
  • ΣΑΡΚΑΝ — flesh, a flesh, body, human nature, carnal nature
  • ΣΑΡΚΑΣ — flesh, meat, the flesh, the meat
  • ΣΑΡΚΕΣ — flesh, body, a body, human nature, carnal nature, physical body
  • ΣΑΡΚΙ — flesh, body, a body, human nature, carnal nature
  • ΣΑΡΚΙΚΗ — fleshly, carnal, worldly, human
  • ΣΑΡΚΙΚΟΝ — fleshly, carnal, worldly, a fleshly thing, a carnal thing, a worldly thing
  • ΣΑΡΚΙΚΟΣ — fleshly, carnal, worldly, human
  • ΣΑΡΚΙΝΟΣ — fleshly, carnal, made of flesh, a fleshly thing, a carnal thing
  • ΣΑΡΚΟΣ — of flesh, of body, of human nature
  • ΣΑΡΚΩ — of flesh, of the flesh, of the body, of the human nature, to flesh, to the flesh, to the body, to the human nature
  • ΣΑΡΚΩΝ — of flesh, of the flesh, of the body, of human nature
  • ΣΑΡΞ — flesh, a flesh, body, a body, human nature, a human nature, mankind, a mankind
  • ΣΑΡΞʼ — flesh, body, human nature, sinful nature, a body, a human nature
  • ΣΑΡΞΙ — (to) flesh, (to) body, (to) meat, (to) a flesh, (to) a body, (to) a meat
  • ΣΑΡΞΙΝ — to flesh, for flesh, to body, for body, to bodies, for bodies

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