ΣΑΡΚΩΝ, σαρκων
SARKŌN, sarkōn
Sounds Like: sar-KOHN
Translations: of flesh, of the flesh, of the body, of human nature
From the root: ΣΑΡΞ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to 'flesh' in a literal sense, like the physical body of a human or animal. It can also be used metaphorically to refer to human nature, especially in contrast to the spiritual, or to humanity in general. It is often used in contexts describing the physical or earthly aspect of existence.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4561 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 6:213
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 1:47
Justin Martyr
- Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:12
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Leviticus — 25:49
- Numbers — 12:12
- Deuteronomy — 28:55
- 4 Maccabees — 7:13
- Job — 2:5, 19:22, 31:31
- Wisdom — 12:5
- Sirach — 25:26
- Isaiah — 10:18
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Revelation — 19:21
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
- ΣΑΡΚΙΝΗΣ — fleshly, carnal, made of flesh, of flesh
- 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
- 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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